Becoming Modern

Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist.

Mount Vaughan [graphic]: Site of Protestant Episcopal Mission, Cape Palmos, West Africa

View of the lush grounds of the mission begun in the black emigrant colony of Liberia in 1835 to educate and spread the gospel in Africa. Depicts the "mission houses," "school house," houses of a "native laborer" and "a colonist," and "native cattle broken to the yoke." A black man guides a cattle-drawn cart on the dirt road outside of the fenced mission fields where black laborers work. Begun under the auspices of the American Colonization Society and the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the mission moved on March 4, 1837 to Mt. Vaughan, named in honor of the Missionary Society's Secretary of the Board, Rev. John Vaughan.

1838

Library Company of Philadelphia

Rogers, Tammy

Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855. Mount Vaughan: Scite of Protest[an]t. Episcopal Mission, Cape Palmos, West Africa. 1838. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A129377. (Accessed July 18, 2021.)

Mount Vaughan: Site of Protestant Episcopal Mission, Cape Palmos, West Africa