History

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great many slaves across the Indian Ocean to the Arab world. When he said that he was going back to Africa to make an open road for commerce and for Christianity he meant that unless a natural alternative was provided the slave trade was bound to go on (Lloyd, p. 182). Livingston was an icon to remind the British of Africa but his role alone did not fully set the foundation for later British growth in Africa. African expansion hadn’t particularly been considered by because it wasn’t viable do to high mortality rates caused by malaria and other tropical diseases and the lack of geographic knowledge of the African hinterland. These piece of the foundation started to come together though in the 1850’s and 1860’s to combined with Livingston’s publicizing of Africa to build the base that would support the rapid expansion the would develop in the 1880’s and 1890’s.
Advances inland were becoming a little more practicable because of advances in technology; People had known for centuries that quinine was a useful drug for tropical dise...