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Part Two: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards

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Living State, the Arab Slave Trade in Africa

David Livingston was an abolitionist and his focus was on ending what is often referred to as the Arab slave trade in Africa. A decent number of the people who were running the trade were Arabs, but they were North African Arabs. It's a bad thing, but it's not quite the way it's portrayed today. So Livingston was committed to ending this kind of slavery.

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