SOURCE: Ross, Andrew. “David Livingstone: The Man Behind the Mask.” In The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, 1799-1999: Historical Essays in Celebration of the Bicentenary of the LMS in Southern Africa, edited by John de Gruchy, pp. 37-54. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

In the following essay, Ross attempts to revise Livingstone's image as a paternalist, arguing that Livingstone saw the Africans as equals, though he considered their culture in need of Christian influence.

William Monk, editor of David Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures, headed a subsection of the appendix he wrote for the second edition, ‘The unity of the human race further proved by Dr Livingstone's researches in South Africa.’ In this section he declared

Differences in colour, speech, natural characteristics, religious belief, moral, social and intellectual condition, may stagger some about the unity of the race; but be it remembered that these diversities are mostly referable to external...