When the celebrated missionary, physician and explorer David Livingstone died in Africa in 1873, his body was shipped back to London along with some tattered pages from the London Standard, which he had cut and sewn together into a makeshift diary.
On those pages ? over articles about corn prices, the archbishop of Canterbury, and the comings and goings of steamships ? Livingstone?s neat script describes an 1871 massacre that dramatically shifted the track of his life and of the anti-slavery movement. And the explorer recounts his reaction in a depth of detail that was censored from published accounts.
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