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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

David Livingstone Centre. CC BY-NC 3.0. In the end ... Forced to team up with the Arab slave traders due to his deteriorating health, Livingstone found—to his dismay—that he was actually ...

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 ...

David Livingstone, the famous Scottish missionary and explorer ... TO EXPLORE THE UNDISCOVERED SECRETS, TO ABOLISH THE DESOLATING SLAVE TRADE, OF CENTRAL AFRICA, WHERE WITH HIS LAST WORDS HE WROTE, ...