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

Behind the Bastards

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The Death of a Child in a Workhouse

"It's hard to trust Stanley on anything because he lied about everything including his time at St. Asifs," says historian and author of "The Death And Life Of A British Outcast" The year that Stanley was admitted to the workhouse 19 of the girls were turned out as prostitutes and pimped by some of the male employees, according to a government inspector who observed the school during this time. He would later tell lies about like getting into a fight with this teacher himself and like beating him up and like being cheered on by the rest of the school. These are almost certainly lies but they were also probably a cover for something very sad which is childhood sexual abuse.

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