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David Livingstone
Portrait of Scottish missionary. physician, and explorer David Livingstone, albumen silver print by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1857; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
David Livingstone was appointed British consul at Quelimane to serve the eastern coast and the independent districts of the interior. His role also designated him as the commander of an expedition tasked with exploring eastern and central Africa, with the primary objective of promoting commerce and civilization to help bring about the extinction of the slave trade.1