[Public Domain Review] Henry Morton Stanley and the Pygmies of “Darkest Africa”

Thu Nov 29 19:10:44 UTC 2012

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  HENRY MORTON STANLEY AND THE PYGMIES OF “DARKEST AFRICA”

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*After returning from his disastrous mission to central Africa to rescue 
a German Colonial governor, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley was eager 
to distract from accusations of brutality with his ‘discovery’ of 
African pygmies. Brian Murray explores how after Stanley’s trip the 
African pygmy, in the form of stereotype and allegory, made its way into 
late Victorian society.*

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