Explorer David Livingstone has been credited with ending the east African slave trade by reporting a massacre of slaves in 1871. A new analysis of his original diary entries, however, shows that ...

Pic of Petina Gappah, author and scholar, for the decolonising David Livingstone piece for SoS “He was a white saviour figure, he ended the slave trade in East Africa, he brought Christianity to ...

Now researchers say they have evidence Dr. David Livingstone may not have ... sultan of Zanzibar to close the island's large slave market. Livingstone's account was first communicated to the ...

Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith argues that it's important to define and describe dehumanization, because it's what ...

an anti-slavery campaigner and Victorian celebrity whose death prompted displays of public mourning reminiscent of Princess Diana. It is 200 years since David Livingstone was born in Blantyre.

and his report of the massacre helped force the British Government to end the East Africa slave trade. The manuscript had been preserved by the National Trust for Scotland’s David Livingstone ...

David Livingstone was born near Glasgow ... His labors toward the suppression of the slave trade are well known, and have tended largely to limit the spread and decrease the barbarities of ...

Historians say the well documented account helped lead to the closure of one of the continent's most notorious slave ... know of Livingstone is largely based on The Last Journals of David ...

words journalist Henry Morton Stanley rehearsed in advance—David Livingstone became immortal ... and to abolish the slave trade." He was Mother Teresa, Neil Armstrong, and Abraham Lincoln ...

The contents of a long-illegible letter written by famed 19th century explorer David ... to injury, Livingstone, a crusading abolitionist, had been forced to seek help from Arab slave traders ...

Glasgow council have come under fire after a report revealed they are considering removing a statue of a famous abolitionist due to an alleged connection to the slave trade. The statue of David ...