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Leopold's Ghost: The Congo Reform Association and the Fight Against Rubber Terror
In this episode of The History of Belgium, Lucas and Luna explore the rise of the international human rights movement against King Leopold II's Congo Free State. They focus on the unlikely collaboration between Edmund Dene Morel, a British shipping clerk who uncovered the rubber slavery system, and Roger Casement, a British diplomat whose 1904 report exposed the atrocities. The conversation delves into the Congo Reform Association, formed in 1904, and its campaign that mobilized public opinion across Europe and America. Figures like Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Booker T…
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