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

Behind the Bastards

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The Fucking Metal Colonialist

Stanley Carl traveled to Africa in 1871. He bought a young slave and made him into his butler, Kalulu. But he beat the boy because it reminded him of slaves at the workhouse where he used to be still beats the shit out of this slave. The story will be good. I will tell people I found him. There's nothing you want more in a journalist than a really good liar. And that's exactly what he was.

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