The Devil and Mr. Casement, a book by Jordan Goodman, examines the push to expose horrifying conditions of the indigenous people working on the rubber plantation in Peru during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Roger Casement, in which the author considers closely, is an Irish man who campaigns to find justice for the oppressed people. He is chosen by the Foreign Office to the Amazonian Peru to investigate atrocities against Indian workers. He became an obvious selection because of a previous mission that exposed atrocities that occurred in the Congo. Mr. Casement arrives in Putumayo to investigate widespread reports of human rights abuse and later encounters Julio Cesar Arana, a Peruvian rubber capitalist and the brainchild
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Mr. Casement uncovers that Mr. Arana has been enslaving, torturing, and murdering Indian rubber workers. Concealed by the British directors, those acts were being carried out by employed Barbarians and British subjects. Roger Casement would later be executed by the British government for being a traitor. Economic and political practices like these are seen throughout history during the period of industrialization. Corporate and government officials have this overwhelming desire to make a profitable business, and in doing so, demoralizes the rights of humans.
The story of Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont by Joseph Boyden tells the tale of these two great men and the rebellion they lead. Riel is the more intellectual of the two while Dumont, a buffalo hunter, is a man of action. The problems these two men touched on were injustice, violence, and cultural prejudice during the economic and political changes of Canada. The Metis, along with other Indians, are regarded as people not worthy of respect or justice. Gabriel Dumont, the Metis leader, realizes that in order for his people to defend themselves, they would need a spiritual leader by the name of Louis Riel. In nineteenth century Canada, buffalo population was nearing extinction, so the Metis’ were
Mr. Casement uncovers that Mr. Arana has been enslaving, torturing, and murdering Indian rubber workers. Concealed by the British directors, those acts were being carried out by employed Barbarians and British subjects. Roger Casement would later be executed by the British government for being a traitor. Economic and political practices like these are seen throughout history during the period of industrialization. Corporate and government officials have this overwhelming desire to make a profitable business, and in doing so, demoralizes the rights of humans.
The story of Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont by Joseph Boyden tells the tale of these two great men and the rebellion they lead. Riel is the more intellectual of the two while Dumont, a buffalo hunter, is a man of action. The problems these two men touched on were injustice, violence, and cultural prejudice during the economic and political changes of Canada. The Metis, along with other Indians, are regarded as people not worthy of respect or justice. Gabriel Dumont, the Metis leader, realizes that in order for his people to defend themselves, they would need a spiritual leader by the name of Louis Riel. In nineteenth century Canada, buffalo population was nearing extinction, so the Metis’ were