Ethiopia; Or, Twenty Years of Missionary Life in Western Africa by FLICKINGER, D. K - 1877

Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1877. First Edition, First Printing. Very good in original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, corners and spinal extremities somewhat worn. Pages clean and bright, binding worn with age but holding well.. Duodecimo. 12.5 x 18 cm. 240 pp. Illustrated with several black-and-white plates. An account of missionary efforts in Ethiopia by the Reverend Daniel Kumler Flickinger, one of the first missionaries of the U.B. church to go to Africa. Flickinger also uses the context of this book to expound on the horrors of slavery, proclaiming that "the treatment which that people have received from the people of Europe and America places us under lasting obligations to them.