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In 1396, a Bavarian teenager named Johann Schiltberger was spared execution at Nicopolis because he was sixteen. Over the next thirty-three years he served as a slave to Bayezid I, Tamerlane, and four of Tamerlane's heirs, crossed into Siberia, and walked home.
Born on 19 March 1813 in a Scottish cotton mill tenement, David Livingstone spent thirty years in Africa making one confirmed convert, getting the Nile wrong, and depending on the slave traders he had dedicated his life to stopping. His servants carried him out.