The American war correspondent sailed down the west coast of Africa and up the Congo River to see for himself the colony run by King Leopold of Belgium. He describes the trading coasters, the capital at Boma, Americans in the Congo, a hippo hunt, Old Calabar and the east coast, and argues bluntly that the Free State system was a system of robbery and cruelty.
A contribution to the campaign against Leopold’s rule, written with the attitudes of its era. Download the free EPUB.