African testimony in the movement for congo reform : the burden of proof / by Robert Burroughs.

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ISBN
9781315208664 (e-book : PDF)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].
©2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (200 pages) : 30 illustrations.
Dizi
Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa
İçindekiler Notu
chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Humanitarianism and diplomacy: West African migrants in the Congo Free State (c.1890–1903) -- chapter 2 Behind the Casement report (1903–4): guides, interpreters, and interviewees -- chapter 3 Before the Commission of Inquiry (1904–5): travellers and testifiers -- chapter 4 The silencing of witnesses: the Stannard trial (1906) and the Sheppard trial (1909) -- chapter 5 ‘Bringing hands to the English’: injured bodies as evidence.
Özet, vb.
The humanitarian movement against Leopold’s violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input. Individuals and groups from throughout the upper Congo River basin undertook journeys of daring and self-sacrifice to provide evidence of atrocities for the colonial authorities, missionaries, and international investigators. Combining archive research with attention to recent debates on the relation between imperialism and humanitarianism, on trauma, witnessing and postcolonial studies, and on the recovery of colonial archives, this book examines the conditions in which colonised peoples were able to speak about their subjection, and those in which attempts at testimony were thwarted. Robert Burroughs makes a major intervention by identifying African agency and input as a key factor in the Congo atrocities debate. This is an important and unique book in African history, imperial and colonial history, and humanitarian history.
Konu
Africans __ Violence against __ Congo (Democratic Republic)
Atrocities __ Congo (Democratic Republic)
Atrocities.
Race relations.
HISTORY / Africa / Central. __ bisacsh
HISTORY / Africa / General. __ bisacsh
HISTORY / Modern / General. __ bisacsh
Belgian Congo.
Colonial Congo.
Congo Atrocities.
Congo Colonialism.
Congo Reform Movement.
Leopold Congo.
Africans __ Violence against __ Congo (Democratic Republic)
Atrocities __ Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic) __ History __ To 1908.
Congo (Democratic Republic) __ Race relations.
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