David Livingstone Research Paper

Have you ever wondered what it would be like, to be highly respected by some tribes of native African's? One man by the name of David Livingstone knew what that honor felt like. David Livingstone had grown up in a poor home, working at the age of 10, in a mill and was schooled during the evening. When he got older, he pursued the art of medicine, so he could be a missionary doctor. When he was 28 years old, he was posted near the edge of the Kalahari Desert in the Southern Africa and at 32 Livingstone married Mary Moffat, a fellow missionary. She and her family were the people who had sparked Livingstone passion to be a missionary in Africa. Now I know that's a lot about Livingstone, and you may be wondering “Bekah, what about the Africans?” well, I'm getting there, be patient! Anyway, the person who had sparked Livingstone passion to be a missionary in Africa was his wife's family, the Moffat's. His
Because the foreigners would capture them and sell them to become slaves. Livingstone was smart by only having a few weapons and traveled in his small group, compared to the larger bands that the slave traders were part of with soldiers and many weapons. Livingstone didn't approve of people misusing native African's and their homeland to make money, either giving them a little bit or nothing at all in return. Livingstone resented against the black slavery, he saw terrible sights of slave traders' careless attention to the native Africans', the people he had come to save. His home country published his book, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. The book was sold to millions of Britons people and the top officials gave him the job to map Africa's traders' trails, rivers, and villages. Livingstone accepted, thinking that he now had his country behind him to stop slavery, not knowing that in the future he would be helping them to capture Africans'