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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University. Klappentext Looking at travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography and more, Burroughs 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. As Burroughs articulates, as well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives importantly contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Zusammenfassung 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 19th and early 20th centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
