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The Black Priest Who Brought down King Leopold

William Henry Sheppard was one of the earliest African Americans to become a missionary for the Presbyterian Church.

While in Africa he exposed the atrocities of colonialism.
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William Henry Sheppard (1865–1927) is often dubbed the "Black Livingstone" after the famed Scottish explorer of Central Africa.

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William Morrison (left) and Dr. William Sheppard (right) with Bakuba witnesses who traveled to Kinshasa for the Sheppard-Morrison trial in 1909.

(Courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Montreat, NC office)
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