While serving in Africa, this missionary put an end to the custom of murdering twin babies.
Mary Slessor
Albert Schweitzer
David Livingstone
Lottie Moon
Mary Slessor, who worked among cannibal tribes in Calabar, Africa, now part of Nigeria. Believing twins were fathered by evil spirits, the tribes brutally murdered the infants. Mary began rescuing these children, and the practice eventually ended.