It was a tremendous and evocative human rights campaign that shaped the view of Africa for much of the British public. Many people gained what little they knew about Africans from the writings of Livingstone, the explorer and missionary who so carefully and passionately related his expe- rience of the slave trade and thus contributed profoundly to the Anti- Slavery Society's campaign in East Africa.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 653