A HARROWING account of the massacre of 400 slaves, written by the famed Scottish explorer David Livingstone, can be read for the first time, the National Library of Scotland has revealed.

Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith argues ... Rolling Stone recently published photos online of American troops posing ...

Now researchers say they have evidence Dr. David ... because Livingstone's account of the horror seen in the African village of Nyangwe galvanized British authorities to shut the slave market ...

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 ...

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 ...

A "lost diary" written by legendary Scots explorer David Livingstone has revealed for the first time his account of the massacre of 400 slaves. A "lost diary" written by legendary Scots explorer ...

David Livingstone is the ... ultimately led to the end of the African slave trade, and closing down the world’s last open slave market. But Livingstone may not have told the entire story ...

Dr. David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and explorer. He visited Nkhotakota inl861 where he witnessed slave trade at its peak. He got horrified in the way slaves were handled at Jumbe's ...

Fresh light has been shed on the Scottish explorer and anti-slavery missionary David Livingstone. A diary which had faded so much it was illegible has been decoded to reveal his first hand account ...

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 ...

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.