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Travel Writing and Atrocities Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo
By Robert Burroughs
Copyright 2011
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, missionaries, consuls, journalists, soldiers, and traders produced evidence of misrule in the Congo,... Read more
List of Figures List of Abbreviations Note on Place Names Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Unspeakable Voyage: Explorers and Colonialists in the Congo 2: ‘[T]he subtle consul’: Roger Casement’s Congo Report 3: In Transit and Transition: Congo Missionaries 4: Cocoa and Antislavery: Henry W. Nevinson’s A Modern Slavery 5: England’s Eyewitness: Casement’s Amazon Journal Conclusion Appendix: Ikembe’s Letter to Rev. Joseph Clark Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Dr. Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University.
