Mary Slessor

Download or read book Mary Slessor - Everybody's Mother written by Jeanette Hardage and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Mary Slessor, a petite redhead from the slums of Dundee who became one of the most influencing people in the land known to her compatriots as 'the white man's grave'. Despite her eccentricities, this woman truly understood and connected with the Africans among whom she lived, so much so that the British government appointed her their first woman magistrate anywhere in the world and later awarded her the highest honor then bestowed on a woman commoner. Examining both the eraand the influence of this extraordinary woman, the book reveals aspects of her public and private life that has previously been unanswered.