Portrait of a young radical

"The Boers or Dutch emigrants oppress these tribes and treat them almost as slaves. They would have contrived to do so to Sechele too, but I succeeded in freeing the Bakwains. A considerable number of guns were purchased, and as this is the source of power of the Boers over the other tribes they began to be afraid that the other tribes would follow his example."

In the 200 years since his birth, the Reverend Dr David Livingstone has been viewed as a Victorian era missionary explorer associated with 'humanitarian imperialism;' an image promoted by imperialists after his death and which survives in the popular mind.