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Lismorelady incorrect statments edit

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Alexander Low Bruce (born 1839) was not the grandson of David Livingstone. He married David Livingstone's daughter Agnes, so was his son-in-law. The contributor seems to have confused Alexander Low Bruce with his son Alexander Livingstone Bruce (born 1881), who was a grandson of David Livingstone.

Although William Jervis Livingstone was a salaried manager, he ran the A L Bruce's Magomero estate from 1893 to 1908 without any supervision and credible contemporary records describe several instances of Livingstone physically abusing Africans himself, and directing estate foremen to whip workers and tenants deemed to be slacking. The Magomero estate under his direct management made tenant farmers, including single women and widows work for five or six months a year in lieu of rent when two months for male tenants only was usual. This was illegal, as was his practices of underpaying workers, or giving insufficient payments in kind. To suggest, as Lismorelady does, that he was paying for the wrongs inflicted by the planter class doesn't stand up.

I have reverted the post.

Sscoulsdon (talk) 14:32, 15 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

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