Historical person
Henry Morton Stanley
1841–1904
Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-born journalist and explorer who became famous for expeditions across central Africa in the late nineteenth century. After serving as a correspondent in the United States, he was sent to search for David Livingstone and later undertook major journeys through the Congo basin, eventually working for King Leopold II in projects that helped establish the Congo Free State.
After crossing central Africa and tracing the Congo River, Stanley worked for Leopold II to establish stations and treaties that underpinned the Congo Free State. His later Emin Pasha Relief Expedition also became a major episode in the imperial partition.
In Thomas Pakenham’s The Scramble for Africa: The White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, Henry Morton Stanley’s work for Leopold II, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza’s French treaties and Otto von Bismarck’s Berlin Conference illustrate how claims made on paper were converted into colonies, protectorates and concessionary states.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Henry Morton Stanley (1 book)
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