David Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, Scotland, in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the River Clyde. He was employed at the tender age of 10 in the mill, and he and his brother John worked 12-hour shifts as ‘piecers’, tying broken cotton threads on the spinning machines. Livingstone also attended Blantyre village school, along with the other mill children.
As a teenager at school, he became interested in nature and science, as well as religion, and went on to study theology and anthropology. He
