Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Note on Place Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Unspeakable Voyage: Explorers and Colonialists in the Congo; 2 "The Subtle Consul": Roger Casement's Congo Report; 3 In Transit and Transition: Congo Missionaries; 4 Cocoa and Antislavery: Henry W. Nevinson's A Modern Slavery; 5 England's Eyewitness: Casement's Amazon Journal; Conclusion; Appendix: Ikembe's Letter to Rev. Joseph Clark; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
