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The physician and the slave trade : John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa

by Daniel Liebowitz

A biography of the physician, botanist, and diplomat John Kirk (1832–1922), who accompanied David Livingstone on his second Zambezi expedition and worked to abolish the slave trade as British Consul-General in Zanzibar.

Accession 18728 ISBN 0716730987 Publisher W. H. Freeman & Co.
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Trained as a physician, Kirk was also an explorer who traveled with David Livingstone across Africa, a botanist, and a diplomat who played a key role in ending the African slave trade and influencing the evolution of European-African relations during the Victorian Age. -- blurb

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