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Stanley, Henry Morton

explorer, author, was born in 1840 near Denbigh, Wales. He is a celebrated African explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a New Orleans merchant, whose name he took. He was sent by the New York Herald in search of Livingstone in 1870, and was again sent to Africa by the Herald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an African expedition sent by the king of the Belgians, which resulted in the establishment of the Congo Free State. He is the author of How I Found Livingstone; My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave, a study of Central Africa; Coomassie and Magdala; Through the Dark Continent; The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State; In Darkest Africa; My Dark Companions; My Early Travels in America and Asia; and Slavery and the Slave Trade in India.