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"The Catholic champion for the liberation of the slaves was the French Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Carthage and Algiers. In 1868 he had founded the Congregation of the White Fathers, with the mission to put an end to slavery in a hitherto inaccessible area of Africa. That unknown area stretched from the southern border of the Sudan to the English colonies of South Africa in its full breadth. The first caravan to reach Central Africa left Marseilles in 1868, the travel experiences were such that Lavigerie had his people accompanied by armed old Zouaves, they had defended the Papal States in Italy against the nationalist armies of Garibaldi who fought for the unification for Italy, the Papal troops lost the fight and the Zouaves, including many Dutch who had become stateless returned home, therefore the first Dutch to enter the African interior were 3 Zouaves."
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Charles Lavigerie
