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These letters from a Danish master farmer working for the German East Africa Company provide fascinating information about the daily business on a plantation, and life of the Africans and others in the early years of colonial expansion and consolidation.

Büttikofer's Travel Sketches from Liberia details the development of the Liberian nation and the intricate, often volatile, relationships between the country's indigenous peoples and its black colonists from America. In remarkable detail, it provides vivid images of the country's past.