![]() ![]() Around the time he turned 18, he gave himself a new name: Henry Morton Stanley. He lived in New Orleans for many years, working for a cotton factor (a kind of businessman who specialized in selling Southern cotton to international buyers). At the age of 15, he left the workhouse and became a sailor aboard a merchant ship traveling to Louisiana. In spite of the harsh living conditions, Rowlands distinguished himself as a student in his Sunday school classes. He grew up in a workhouse, where he, like other young unwanted children, was forced to work in a factory. ![]() Rowlands was born into a poor Welsh family, and his parents weren’t married-a major taboo at the time. The first Englishman to travel far up the Congo River was John Rowlands. ![]()
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