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The Black Livingstone written by Pagan Kennedy.
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... The Black Livingstone written by Pagan Kennedy is the true story about William Sheppard's adventures in the nineteenth century. William Sheppard was a missionary sent to the Belgium Congo in 1890. Sent with William was a man named Sam Lapsley. Sam and William attended different churches due to segregation laws and when sailing through the United States Sam could not be seen with William due to the new enforced Jim Crow laws. Both the missionaries became partners in the dangerous efforts to take Christianity into the largely unexplored Congo. He was very determined to complete his goal of converting the Congo even if it took his whole life. Many key issues are discussed in Black Livingstone, such as transportation, medicine and self-defense, among the people of Africa. Medicine was a large issue in Africa when William Sheppard was there. He experienced many deaths due to lack of medicine, for example













