Another one of the promises made in “The White Man’s Burden” was to help the people by protecting them. This promise, as well as the promise of stopping famine were both broken. In “The White Man’s Burden”, Rudyard Kipling had promised they would protect and help the people of color from around the world. “...when we failed and our rubber was short, the soldiers came to our towns and killed us. Many were shot, some had their ears cut off; others were tied up with ropes around their necks and bodies and taken away” (Death in the Congo 2). As promised in “The White Man’s Burden”, to protect and help the non-civilized people in the world. Clearly, that promise was broken. The English treated those other people horribly by slavery that sometimes
