Excerpt from Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished on the Congo for Twenty Years, 1890-1910 Apart from this personal aspect of the case, the ter rible catastrophe which fell upon Belgium, following so swiftly in the wake of the prolonged effort - in which a number of Belgians played a prominent and distinguished part - to free the Congo from the far more appalling visita tions inflicted upon its people for twenty years, was a dramatic historical episode calculated powerfully to afiect the ...
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Excerpt from Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished on the Congo for Twenty Years, 1890-1910 Apart from this personal aspect of the case, the ter rible catastrophe which fell upon Belgium, following so swiftly in the wake of the prolonged effort - in which a number of Belgians played a prominent and distinguished part - to free the Congo from the far more appalling visita tions inflicted upon its people for twenty years, was a dramatic historical episode calculated powerfully to afiect the imagination, and to revive interest in the Congo tragedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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