The History of Slavery, Part 5: The Road to Abolition
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Livingston's Crusade Against the Curse of Africa
In 1847, he and his wife established a mission among the Baquena people. His immediate problem was the boars. These were Dutch settlers who imported slaves from Madagascar but also saw local Africans to serve as domestic servants and farm workers. In 1852, they raided Colobang, the village where the Livingston's lived. The boar is plundered by house, he wrote to a friend, and carried off upwards of 200 children after killing many of the adults. I felt it to be my duty to expose a slave-making deeds of the boars in a letter to the government. So began his passionate crusade against what he called the curse of Africa.
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