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== Life == | == Life == | ||
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David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion. | David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Charles Angell Bradford|Bradford,Charles Angell]]|title=Heart Burial|year=1933|publisher=Allen & Unwin|location=London|isbn=9-781162-771816|page=242}}</ref>) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion. | ||
== Notes and references == | == Notes and references == | ||
