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Baptized “John Rowlands, bastard,” Stanley was the illegitimate son of a farmer known as a drunkard and a butcher’s daughter who worked as a domestic servant.

Stanley never knew his father and was given to the care of his grandfather and other relatives as a baby. He spent his formative years (1847-1856) in the St. Asaph’s Poor Law Union Workhouse, where he learned to read, write, and draw, and acquired a respect for authority administered with applications of corporal punishment.

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At the end of 1857, he shipped to New Orleans as a cabin boy aboard the American packet ship Windermere. Befriended there and unofficially adopted by a mercantile agent named Henry Hope Stanley, the teenager acquired some business experience and later became a shop assistant in Cypress Bend, Arkansas.

(A bout with malaria there probably inured him to more serious consequences from the disease in Africa.) With the outbreak of the American Civil War, he was pressured to join a Co