[Resolved] What Did Henry Stanley Do?

In October 1869, James Gordon Bennett Jr., the vehemently anti-British, hard-drinking 28-year-old editor of the New York Herald, saw this tension as a means to boost the paper’s already astronomical circulation of 60,000 copies a day. He hoped to capitalize on the mystery and fame surrounding Dr. David Livingstone (a British explorer who was missing for over four years in Africa), and he succeeded. Although Livingstone’s achievements charting the unknown African continent had galvanized Britain, his government had been apathetic about rescuing him. Bennett believed that Americans would be able to do the same as British. From a hotel room in Paris, he ordered Henry Morton Stanley, a newcomer to the Herald, to lead an expedition into the African wilderness to find the explorer, or “bring back all possible proofs of his being dead.” What Bennett did not know was that this brash cigar-smoking 28-year-old reporter—who had fought for both the blue and the gray in the Civil War—was as British as Livingstone. (Erected by Jeremy Carter of Ryazan in Russia on November 28, 2021). [2]

It was Stanley’s third and last great African adventure of 1887-89 that was the subject of much controversy, when one member of the’s having expedition bought an 11-year-old native girl for the price of a few handkerchiefs. James Jameson was the heir of an Irish whisky empire and gifted the girl for a group of cannibals. He could then watch the dismemberment, cooking, and eating, as well as record the event in his sketch book. Stanley became agitated and sick when he’s finding out the truth. Jameson was already dead from fever. He’s had saying said of Jameson that he may not have been “originally wicked”, however Africa and its horrors had dehumanised him. [3]

Headstuff.org He also mentions that henry Morton Stanley was born in Denbigh, northern Wales, in 1841. His parents were not married, and his mother, a teenager named Elizabeth Parry, abandoned him to his father’s care shortly after his birth. His father’s name was John Rowlands, and that became his name as well. John senior, an alcoholic died at the age of two. Years old. While his paternal grandfather was not interested in him, and his mother had already moved to London at that point, he was transferred into the custody of her family. Initial his. Mother’s fatherMoses Parry, a butcher, took care of him. John, who was just five years old, lost Moses. He was then taken to the Workhouse where he was bullied and beat and even sexually assaulted. When he was fifteen, he’s runing away to become an assistant teacher in school. He’s then going to Liverpool with his aunt. Then he’s leaving his homeland and his name behind and moved to the New World. [4]