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

Behind the Bastards

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Tim Giel's Book, Oh, Sorry, This Is We're Not Even At

Tim Giel's book exonerates the great Victorian explorer Henry Morton Stanley from allegations of racism, brutality and suppressed homosexuality. In doing this, Giel ignores lines from Stanley's journal like this: The blacks given immense amount of trouble. They are too ungrateful for my fancy. And perhaps most racist of all, a line about Afro Arab people from non racist Henry Morton Stanley quote,. For the half cast I have great contempt. They are neither black nor white, neither good nor bad, neither to be admired nor hated. they are all things at all times.

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