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"Brief memoir of Eliza L. Davis, an American missionary born to former slave parents in Bastrop County, Texas published shortly before her journey to Africa, and likely as a fundraiser for her travel .... The pamphlet charts her early life, conversion, her family's decision to help her pursue higher education, the various challenges she faced, the vision she witnessed at church, and a concluding 12-stanza poem, 'A call to duty'"--

Deed from sellers Richard and Eliza Davis to buyer Edward H. Warrick for land in Gloucester Township, N.J.