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Jacob Wainwright

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Wainwright recorded his experiences on the Livingstone mission. One diary that detailed the bringing of Livingston'e body to the Swahili coast for repatriation to Great Britain was published by the Hakluyt Society in 2007. In 2019, one of Wainwright's entire handwritten diaries, as well as a few
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As the most literate member of the party, Wainwright was also responsible for writing a letter to the relief expedition which included Livingstone's son, informing them that Dr Livingstone had died. At Zanzibar, it seems that the British assumed that Wainwright was the leader, despite his youth,
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Wainwright's birth date is unknown; accounts of his age vary widely. Some accounts put him at being born in 1849/50, but other accounts estimate that he was about fourteen when he joined Livingstone's expedition, suggesting a birth date around 1859. He was born into the
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at Aden, and with the help of the explorer's son Thomas from Alexandria onwards, Wainwright guarded Livingstone's coffin on its journey to Britain. Wainwright was the only African among the eight pallbearers at the explorer’s funeral in
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personal letters, were digitized and made available online. The diary is valued, as few indigenous Black African servants of white European explorers are known to have written about their experiences.
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Wainwright died at the Urambo Mission in April 1892 as a result of burns and scalds from falling onto a fire and upturning a pot of water. He was buried near his hut, his grave marked by a
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and travelled across the country addressing meetings of the Church Missionary Society. On 18 August 1874, he went to teach freed slaves at Kisulidini, near
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because he was the only African servant who could speak and write in English. He was dispatched with the body for England, picking up with the
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Malwa (1873) carried the body of explorer and missionary Dr David Livingstone from Aden to Southampton in March 1874.
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until in 1931 the Moravian Church, Salem, North Carolina, USA presented a metal tablet to be laid at his grave.
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Campbell, R. J.; Beals, Herbert K.; Savours, Ann; McConnell, Anita; Bridges, Roy (15 May 2017).
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Aged about 14, Wainwright was hired to accompany Dr. Livingstone as he explored East Africa.
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Dark companions : the African contribution to the European exploration of East Africa
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Jacob Wainwright accompanying David Livingstone's coffin on board the SS Malwa
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Inscription by Jacob Wainwright on the tree under which Livingstone was buried
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Dr Livingstone I Presume: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire
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Four Travel Journals / The Americas, Antarctica and Africa / 1775-1874
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Four Travel Journals / The Americas, Antarctica and Africa / 1775-1874
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Following Livingstone's death Wainwright stayed in England at
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By 1879, Wainwright was working as a door-porter in
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Illustration of porters carrying Livingstone's body
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Index


Lake Nyasa/Malawi
Malawi
Urambo District
German East Africa
Tanzania
David Livingstone
attendant
David Livingstone

Yao
Yao people
Lake Malawi
Arab slave traders
British anti-slavery ship
baptised
Church Missionary Society
Bombay
British India
Nashik

Ilala
Bangweulu Swamps
Zambia
Abdullah Susi and James Chuma
Bagamoyo
Zanzibar
Book of Common Prayer

Peninsular and Oriental

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