Red rubber : the story of the rubber slave trade which flourished on the Congo for twenty years, 1890-1910,

Red rubber : the story of the rubber slave trade which flourished on the Congo for twenty years, 1890-1910, by Edmund Dene Morel

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Red rubber : the story of the rubber slave trade which flourished on the Congo for twenty years, 1890-1910, by Edmund Dene Morel

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Red Rubber by E.D. Morel By Bonita Evans I had been looking high and low for this book. I have the film. Normally whenever I buy a film, I get the accompanying book. As an educator, I always prove everything I say beyond the point of argument, if possible. Since this book exposes the repugnant treatment of the Congolese during the reign of Leopold II and his excessive greed, I can use it to show my students what colonialism was like for the colonized. Having lived in Africa during the ten years immediately following the independence of most countries, I am extremely interested in finding out people who have not had an opportunity to speak with the colonized, as I did.Although Leopold was known as a monster both in Europe and in Africa before the advent of Hitler, I find that there are always people to who refuse to hear the truth. Morel worked for Leopold's African interests in the Congo and was intimately aware of what was going on. Now all I need is a copy of a book relating the experience of the Congolese (in French please) written by a Congolese.Bonita Evans, Ph.D.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not the best edition, but -- By R. L. Huff I'd also been looking for a copy of this. Thanks to modern on-line retail, several options were open, and I settled on this edition. That was not the best choice: although copied from the final original edition, and up to date on the Congo story, the master copy was in bad shape and it shows. Also, no photographs were included. That said, it doesn't detract from the value of the work itself. Morel's tract is far from an antiquarian curio. It yet resonates with contemporary themes on Africa and humanitarian intervention.King Leopold's Congo was not the sui generis attempt at one-man colonizing Morel claimed. Morel surely knew of Cecil Rhodes, and how the same upright British Empire that demanded open trade in Leopold's hellhole had no trouble invading the Boer republics' diamond mines and goldfields and annexing them as British property. Native workers shipped to labor in South Africa might have felt some kinship with the rubber slaves of the Congo. The uproar over "conflict" blood diamonds shows the same Western corporate extractive exploitation continues unabated. Reformers condemning such an evil regime and overseeing its termination seemed powerless (as now) to stop the real "heart of darkness" at work. Much of the reason was political, the movement betrayed by the usual establishment liberals like Sir Edward Grey. With a possible conflict with Germany looming on the horizon, Belgium was needed as a "neutral ally" on the Continent. It was therefore "politic" to backpedal condemning the country and its king, and rest content with said ally's formal assurances. As Morel notes, Leopold's successor, King Albert, quietly began a reversal of the royal heritage on the Congo. But far from being the great benchmark in European-African relations as Morel hoped, the reform movement descended into compromise, to be conveniently forgotten when the Kaiser's troops crossed the border.This irony was also underscored by the wartime fate of Roger Casement, one of Morel's British co-reformers, knighted for his work undermining Britain's commercial rivals on the Congo. Casement's equal passion for justice for his native Ireland received quite a different response from the Empire. (Look it up.) When the Belgians themselves suffered similar treatment by German troops a decade later the term "Belgian atrocities" came to mean those inflicted on whites in Louvain, not blacks in Boma; but the legacy remained. Though Belgian memory was conveniently lost - "God will punish Belgium!" as one liberal Belgian paper prophesied (p. 215) - when Belgium became the victim of aggression, many of the more exaggerated claims against German troops (cutting off children's hands) were exactly those documented against Belgian native troops in the Congo - after years of hot denial. If the Belgian Leopoldian regime Morel lambasts bears a striking resemblance to Nazi behavior in Poland, this too was not incidental. The Nazis' great crime in European history was to gore Europe's own ox by turning this legacy of savagery inward, treating white Europeans as lesser races fit only for exploitation and extermination. Though Morel does not mention Conrad's Captain Kurtz, no doubt many frustrated Gauleiters echoed the "logic" of the Congo in implementing the policies of empire.The moral urgency throughout Morel's volume should be quite familiar to us by now, as one evil regime after another provokes unending international humanitarian crises, with aroused NGOs (like the prototypical Congo Reform Association) urging powerful Western states to "do something" for the good of humanity. Morel's rather blunt description of the benefits of free trade to follow removing Leopold as slaveowner of the Congo shows the practical dimension is never far from the surface in such crusades. Note also the "threat" of too many unsupervised natives with guns to law and order in the rest of Africa, again parallel to the diamond warlords so necessary to raw material extraction in West Africa. Thus Morel's pioneer work in modern human rights consciousness deserves study not only as a window into a forgotten era, but into our own sadly unchanged times.

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