Red Rubber: The story of the Rubber slave trade which flourished on the Congo for twenty years, 1890-1910

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Excerpt from Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished on the Congo for Twenty Years, 1890-1910

Apart from this personal aspect of the case, the ter rible catastrophe which fell upon Belgium, following so swiftly in the wake of the prolonged effort – in which a number of Belgians played a prominent and distinguished part – to free the Congo from the far more appalling visita tions inflicted upon its people for twenty years, was a dramatic historical episode calculated powerfully to afiect the imagination, and to revive interest in the Congo tragedy.