Ch 5 The Not-So-Great Playmaker

The Helmores and the Prices were two young missionary families who became victims of one of Livingstone’s grandiose plans that went badly wrong. There were no medical workers in these young families, but their stories illustrate clearly one of the first tasks global health workers faced in Africa: preventing the high mortality of missionaries, explorers, and eventually colonists.

Despite the difficulties and setbacks of their task, members of these two families preserved a careful record of their final journey in diaries and letters. Their own words show us people who, though not immune to frustration, demonstrated nobility - the kind that has nothing to do with class.

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