Roger Casement

a humanitarian. Morel, along with Roger Casement, managed to create enough buzz against Leopold that he failed to control the international outcry against him and his regime. But he, and after his death, the Belgian government managed to create a façade of "Congo Question" by convincing the international community of human right that adequate reforms have been undertaken to control the brutality of enslavement of Congolese people. Even though Morel and casement achieved a great accomplishment…

Adam Hochschild is an American author and journalist. One of his best-selling books, King Leopold’s Ghost is based on the history of brutality carried out by King Leopold in the Congo. Before writing this book, Hochschild remembered reading about the terror in the Congo in Joseph Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness. Hochschild had to do more research on Kind Leopold and his reign of terror in the Congo to find out if it was really fact or fiction. He later found out that the “death toll was of…

“This is a story of that movement, of the savage crime that was its target, of the long period of exploration and conquest that preceded it and the way the world has forgotten one of the great mass killings of recent history (2-3). King Leopold II of Belgium began his reign of terror on Congo in the 1880s as Africa was being split up by the European Powers. Henry Morton Stanley, a renowned explorer, became the first who went through the unexplored area surrounding the Congo River, and through…

There are numerous credible facts that clearly prove why Heart of Darkness should not be taught in schools across America. Joseph Conrad had the sheer audacity to describe exactly what he saw in the Congo with great detail and purpose. With Conrad’s experiences and morals, this novel establishes itself as a very noteworthy and informative piece of work that captures the intensity of the early 1900’s Congo. One of the major complaints about Heart of Darkness is Conrad’s crude, straight-forward…

In Adam Hochschild’s book King Leopold's Ghost, he reveals the gruesome bloodshed that went on hidden behind King Leopold's deceit from around 1895-1908. This novelistic narrative, focuses on King Leopold II merciless pillage around the Congo River. While King Leopold II created a holocaust of his own, he kept up his reputation in Belgium as a great humanitarian. While Leopold was killing millions of Congolese around the Congo, most Europeans believed he was funding projects and putting a stop…

Movement. The ways that they would speak out was by writing letters and doing speeches about what was occurring in the Congo. King Leopold II would try to get both men to stop speaking out against him by giving them gifts and potentially bribing them. Casement would write in his diary the horrors he saw and one entry was, “I walked into villages, and saw the nearest one—population dreadfully decreased—only 93 people left out of many hundreds.” This heartbreaking entry fueled his fire for…

King Leopold’s Ghost The world has been affected multiple times by a number of different holocausts. In King Leopold’s Ghost: A story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild a holocaust becomes very prominent to a lot of people. This book begins in 1897 when Edmund Dene Morel witnessed the trade of slave labor for goods, like rubber and ivory, between the Free Congo State and Europe. This led Morel to start the first great international rights movement of the…

According to our world history professor Miss. Wagoner, imperialism can be defined as when there is a domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country. For example, this is when a country takes over another country and forces the colonized to follow the colonizers ideas and ways of life. Back in the 1800 to early 1900 imperialism was occurring all over the world. A vast amount of countries were trying to take over lands and gain new resources. Many…

JMJ Christian Crispin Condron Dr. Daniel Clasby World Civilization April 27, 2016 Analyzing Primary Sources #2 Beginning in the nineteenth century the philosophy of “Modernism” through the current ruling governments started to take effect as Monarchies along with other governments around Europe were forced to change and react to the peoples wants and needs as a result of the ongoing revolutions occurring amongst that nation’s citizens. This sense of “Modernism” that these Monarchies were going…

The famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky once noted,“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.” This quote best exemplifies the ideology that enabled King Leopold the Second to exploit and destroy…