Livingstone, David

has biography | a une biographie: Scottish colonialist, physician, Christian missionary, and explorer in Africa in the nineteenth century. Livingstone's early life and employment was associated with West Indian slavery. From 1823, he worked in Blantyre Mill, owned by Henry Monteith, who was in a partnership with two Glasgow-West India merchants in the 1810s. Later in life, after several years of experience in Africa, he condemned slave traders, but retained his respect for cotton merchants, who had financed his own education.
was born | est né: 19 March 1813
died in | est mort par: 1 May 1873
has nationality | a la nationalité: Scotland; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; Stephen Mullen, 'Glasgow, Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: an Audit of Historic Connections and Modern Legacies', (Report for Glasgow City Council, 2022); T.M. Devine, ‘An Eighteenth Century Business Elite, 1750-1815’, Scottish Historical Review, 57/ 163 (1978), pp.40-67.

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Statue of David Livingstone, Blantyre
Statue of David Livingstone, Edinburgh
Statue of David Livingstone, Glasgow
Statue of David Livingstone, Royal Geographical Society