Bücher von Mary Louise Clifford

When the Southern Lights Went Dark tells the story of the men who assumed the daunting task of finding the lenses and lamps, repairing deliberate destruction to the towers and lightships, and relighting them as soon as the Navy could afford them protection.

Over 3,000 persons deserted American rebel master, during American revolution. In 1792, they were offered a home in West Africa; over 1,200 responded, and became the founders of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This history follows ten of these freed slaves from their escape from masters in Virginia to Freetown, where they struggled for dignity.