Title Travel writing and atrocities : eyewitness accounts of colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo / Robert M. Burroughs

Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages) : illustrations, map Series Routledge research in travel writing ; 4 Routledge research in travel writing ; 4. Contents Unspeakable voyage : explorers and colonialists in the Congo -- "The subtle consul" : Roger Casement's Congo report -- In transit and transition : Congo missionaries -- Cocoa and antislavery : Henry W. Nevinson's A modern slavery -- England's eyewitness : Casement's Amazon journal -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Ikembe's letter to Rev. Joseph Clark Summary This book 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-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, missionaries, consuls, journalists, soldiers, and traders produced evidence of misrule in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo, which they described their travel and witnessing of colonial violence in travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography, and more. As well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In particular, whereas earlier antislavery travelers had tended to promote British imperial expansion as a remedy to slavery, travel texts produced for the three major humanitarian campaigns of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century expressed -- and, indeed, gave rise to -- changes in the perception of Britain as a nation for whom the protection of Africans remained paramount. Burroughs's study charts the emergence of a subversive eyewitness response in travel writing, which implicated Britons and British industries in the continuing existence of slave labor in regions formally ruled by other nations publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed January 26, 2021) Subject Atrocities -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Sources Atrocities -- Angola -- History -- Sources Atrocities -- Putumayo River Region -- History -- Sources Travelers' writings, British. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Atrocities Colonization Race relations Travelers' writings, British SUBJECT Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Sources Angola -- Colonization -- History -- Sources Putumayo River Region -- Colonization -- Sources Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- Sources Angola -- Race relations -- History -- Sources Putumayo River Region -- Race relations -- History -- Sources Subject Angola Congo (Democratic Republic) South America -- Putumayo River Region Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203849163 0203849167 9781136953446 1136953442 9781136953392 1136953396 9781136953439 1136953434

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