Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a description of the country and its various inhabitants

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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Description: Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia; together with a description of the country and its various inhabitants. Illustrated by a map and twenty engravings of scenes and persons, taken on the spot. By the Rev. Henry A. Stern.
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1862; Place: London; Publisher: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare 916.3-S
Topics: Description and travel; Ethiopia
Genres: Books; Illustrations
Physical Description: Extent: Viii, 322 p. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 23 cm.; Engravings
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR5970442-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11705079; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): aaa7f000-c629-012f-3d44-58d385a7bc34