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The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness

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The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness - Goodman, Jordan
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In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Casement was outraged by what he uncovered: nearly thirty thousand Indians had died to produce four thousand tons of rubber for Peruvian and British commercial interests, under the brutal rubber baron Julio C�sar Arana. In 1912, Casement's seven-hundred-page report of the Putumayo violence set off ...

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The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness 2011, Picador USA, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312680589

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The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness 2010, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780374138400

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