John Harris, who had exposed atrocities in the Congo, travelled through West Africa and wrote this survey of its peoples, customs and economic life, with an introduction by Lord Cromer. He documents surviving slavery, the recapture of runaways under British rule and labour abuses, and argues for what he saw as moral and material progress.
A significant document of the humanitarian campaigns of 1912, though its view of ‘civilisation’ is that of its era. Download the free EPUB.