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The Crime of the Congo

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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In 1909 Arthur Conan Doyle threw his fame behind the Congo Reform campaign. Drawing on the reports of consuls, missionaries and investigators, he sets out how King Leopold II of Belgium turned the Congo Free State into a private rubber estate, enforced by forced labour, hostage-taking, mutilation and massacre, and calls on Britain and the world to act.

A passionate, documented human rights pamphlet that helped end one of the worst abuses of colonial rule. Download the free EPUB.

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