Travel Writing and Atrocities Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo Routledge Research in Travel Writing Series
Auteur : Burroughs Robert M.
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, Angola, and the Putumayo, which they described their travel and witnessing of colonial violence in travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography, and more. As well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In particular, whereas earlier antislavery travelers had tended to promote British imperial expansion as a remedy to slavery, travel texts produced for the three major humanitarian campaigns of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century expressed ? and, indeed, gave rise to ? changes in the perception of Britain as a nation for whom the protection of Africans remained paramount. Burroughs's study charts the emergence of a subversive eyewitness response in travel writing, which implicated Britons and British industries in the continuing existence of slave labor in regions formally ruled by other nations.
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
Dr. Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Date de parution : 09-2010
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 04-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Congo Free State; congo; Congo Reform; free; Domaine De La Couronne; state; Congo Reform Movement; reform; Congo Basin; movement; Roger Casement; basin; Congo Report; roger; Lake Leopold II; casement; Congo Reform Association; report; West African Mail; british; Youngest Man; King Leopold’s Soliloquy; Travel Writing; Leopold’s Colony; Affi Davit; Aborigines Protection Society; Baptist Missionary Society; Portuguese West Africa; Congo Cannibals; Modern Slavery; EPRE; Rear Column; Black Diaries; King Leopold’s Rule; William Cadbury