Red Rubber - The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished on the Congo for Twenty Years, 1890-1910 #220137

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.