Download or read book E D Morel s History of the Congo Reform Movement written by Edmund Dene Morel and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement 1896 1913 written by Dean Pavlakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congo Free State was under the personal rule of King Leopold II of the Belgians from 1885 to 1908. The accolades that attended its founding were soon contested by accusations of brutality, oppression, and murderous misrule, but the controversy, by itself, proved insufficient to prompt changes. Starting in 1896, concerned men and women used public opinion to influence government policy in Britain and the United States to create space for reforming forces in Belgium itself to pry the Congo from Leopold’s grasp and implement reforms. Examining key factors in the successes and failures of a pivotal movement that aided the colonized people of the Congo and broadened the idea of human rights, British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement provides a valuable update to scholarship on the history of humanitarianism in Africa. The Congo Reform movement built on the institutional experience of overseas humanitarianism, the energy of evangelical political involvement, and innovations in racial, imperial, and nationalist discourse to create political energy. Often portrayed as the efforts of a few key people, especially E.D. Morel, this book demonstrates that the movement increasingly manifested itself as an institutionalized and transnational campaign with support from key government officials that ultimately made a material difference to the lives of the people of the Congo.

Download or read book African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform written by Robert Burroughs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humanitarian movement against Leopold’s violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input. Individuals and groups from throughout the upper Congo River basin undertook journeys of daring and self-sacrifice to provide evidence of atrocities for the colonial authorities, missionaries, and international investigators. Combining archive research with attention to recent debates on the relation between imperialism and humanitarianism, on trauma, witnessing and postcolonial studies, and on the recovery of colonial archives, this book examines the conditions in which colonised peoples were able to speak about their subjection, and those in which attempts at testimony were thwarted. Robert Burroughs makes a major intervention by identifying African agency and input as a key factor in the Congo atrocities debate. This is an important and unique book in African history, imperial and colonial history, and humanitarian history.

Download or read book E D Morel 1873 1924 written by Catherine Ann Cline and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book King Leopold s Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

Download or read book Red Rubber written by Edmund Dene Morel and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Global History of Anti Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century written by W. Mulligan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery.

Download or read book The Black Man s Burden written by Edmund Dene Morel and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pamphlets on the Congo Slave State written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Treatment of Women and Children in the Congo State 1895 1904 written by Edmund Dene Morel and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Future of the Congo written by Edmund Dene Morel and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Humanitarian Photography written by Heide Fehrenbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the historical evolution of 'humanitarian photography' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.

Download or read book The Politics of Dissent written by Donald Mitchell and published by Silverwood Books. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reformer, rebel, and political activist: this is the biography of E D Morel.

Download or read book The Congo crown Domain written by Edmund Dene Morel and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book King Leopold s Soliloquy written by Mark Twain and published by LeftWord Books. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear, dear, when the soft-hearts get hold of thing like that missionary's contribution they completely lose their tranquility they speak profanely and reproach Heaven for allowing such a find to live. Meaning me . They think it irregular. They go shuddering around, brooding over the reduction of that Congo population from 25,000,000 to 15,000,000 in the twenty years of my administration; then they burst out and call me the King with Ten Million Murders on his Soul. They call me a 'record'. - From King Leopold's Soliloquy