Victoria Sherman Lang

To Liberia Victoria Sherman Lang

Young and daring freed slave, Matilda Newport today a Liberian Heroine, takes a perilous journey by ship and travels on foot through the jungles of Africa to a fated destiny that leads her as a woman to save the first Republic in Africa run by black freed slaves sponsored by the United States from treacherous tribal kings despite treaties, and to survive the grab by European colonialists of land during the era of the slave trade. A story mixed with African folklore and myths about mermaids..