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Commission of Inquiry of the Congo Free State (1904-05)
Commission the Free State appointed on 23 July 1904 to see whether the people of the Congo were ill-treated by private persons or State agents; it travelled in the Congo from October 1904 and reported on 30 October 1905.
- Dates
- 23 Jul 1904 – 30 Oct 1905
- Place
- Boma
- The Red Rubber22 scenes
- How are Commission of Inquiry of the Congo Free State (1904-05) and … connected?
Connections 11
involved
- Congo Free State appointed it by decree of 23 July 1904 Primary record 1
- United States government its minister at Brussels judged the report fair (spelling as printed) Primary record 2
- Antwerp Primary record 1
- Boma Primary record 1
- Kinshasa (Leopoldville) Primary record 1
- Mbandaka (Coquilhatville) Primary record 1
- Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company (Abir) Primary record 1
- Boali the Commission saw her at Baringa Primary record 1
- Lontulu testified, in the missionaries' notes Scholarship & press 3
includes
- Report of the Commission of Inquiry (1905) 30 Oct 1905 Primary record 1
led to
- Report of the Commission of Inquiry (1905) Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 23 Jul 1904 – 30 Oct 1905 Commission of Inquiry of the Congo Free State (1904-05)
- 30 Oct 1905 Report of the Commission of Inquiry (1905) part of Commission of Inquiry of the Congo Free State (1904-05)
Proof 3 sources
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The Congo: a report of the Commission of Enquiry appointed by the Congo Free State government (English translation, 1906), Commission of Enquiry of the Congo Free State, translated by G. P. Putnam's Sons (Project Gutenberg), 30 Oct 1905.
Primary record
In obedience to the instructions contained in Article 5 of the Decree of July 23, 1904, we have the honour to submit to you a Report upon the results of the enquiry that we conducted in the Congo.
The Commission left Antwerp the 15th day of September, 1904, and arrived at Boma on October 5th, 1904.
The Commission remained in Boma from the 5th until the 23rd of October.
from the afternoon of the 26th to October the 31st it remained in Leopoldville where it sat daily.
After that the Commission went to Coquilhatville, remaining six days, from the 25th to the 30th of November.
On December 1st, it left for Lulonga and Abir, sailed up the Lulonga river and its tributaries the Lopori and the Mirangi.
Reverend Mr. Harris at Baringa showed to us a person named Isekosu and the woman Boali, the former without his right hand and the latter without her right foot.
the Report which the Commission appointed to investigate the State territories, submitted to the Government on the 30th of October, 1905.
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Minister Wilson to the Secretary of State, Brussels, 2 December 1905 (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1905, doc. 116), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 2 Dec 1905.
Primary record
The report sems to be made in a spirit of perfect fairness, and the findings of the ommission will doubtless be accepted as unprejudiced and just concluions.
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The Crime of the Congo, by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hutchinson (Project Gutenberg), 1909.
Scholarship & press
Lontulu, the senior chief of Bolima, came with twenty witnesses, which was all the canoe would hold.
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