In 1907 the young American engineer Walter Hardenburg travelled down the Putumayo River and stumbled on the regime of the Peruvian Amazon Company, which enslaved the Huitoto and other peoples to gather rubber. His narrative of the journey and his investigation of floggings, murders and the sale of Indians is printed here with extracts from Roger Casement’s official report.
A harrowing landmark of human-rights reporting that helped bring the company’s crimes before Parliament. Download the free EPUB.