A pilgrimage to my motherland An account of a journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60 Campbell, Robert, of the Niger Valley Exploring Party. text text nyu monographic New York Philadelphia T. Hamilton The author 1861 eng
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145 p. map, port. 19 cm. Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), made up the Niger Valley Exploring Party of 1859-60, an expedition organized by free African Americans to explore the possibility of colonizing parts of West Africa with black immigrants from America. Campbell traveled first to England in early 1859. He sailed on to Lagos (present-day Nigeria) and traveled northwest to Abeokuta, where he met up with Delany, a journalist, political activist, and graduate of Harvard Medical School. Acting in their capacity as commissioners of the Niger Valley Exploring Party, Delany and Campbell concluded a treaty with the king and chiefs of the Egba giving them the right to establish settlements in the Egba territory. A Pilgrimage to My Motherland: An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa is Campbell's account of the expedition, and includes descriptions of Abeokuta, ethnographic material, and the text of the treaty he and Delany negotiated. The treaty ran into political resistance among the Egba and was never implemented, but Campbell did immigrate to Africa. With his wife and four children, he settled in Lagos in 1862, where he founded and published the newspaper the Anglo-African and was involved in numerous commercial, civic, and scientific ventures that contributed to the early development of the British colony of Lagos. World Digital Library. By Robert Campbell ... of the Niger Valley exploring party. f-nr--- Yoruba (African people) Lagos (Nigeria : State) Description and travel Nigeria Description and travel DT515.9.L3 C3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.05014430 05014430 3864743 hdl:loc.gdc/gdclccn.05014430 DLC 780505 20260501185513.4 9140235 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)