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Congo reform campaign (from 1904)

Campaign in Britain and the United States, led by the Congo Reform Association from April 1904, that pressed for an end to the Free State's system.

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Congo Reform Association Scholarship & press 1
E. D. Morel Scholarship & press 2
Roger Casement Scholarship & press 2
Mark Twain Scholarship & press 2
Arthur Conan Doyle Scholarship & press 2
United States government received the Association's memorial in 1905; Leopold's counsel replied to it Self-published 3

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Red Rubber: the story of the rubber slave trade on the Congo, by E. D. Morel, T. Fisher Unwin (Internet Archive copy), 1906. Scholarship & press
Earl Beauchamp as its first president, in April, 1904
an association which should concentrate its energies upon One direct and simple issue
The Crime of the Congo, by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hutchinson (Project Gutenberg), 1909. Scholarship & press
Mr. E. D. Morel has done the work of ten men, and the Congo Reform Association has struggled hard with very scanty means
the historic report of Consul Roger Casement confirmed, and in some ways amplified, all that had reached Europe from other sources.
Any American citizen who will glance at Mark Twain's "King Leopold's Soliloquy" will see some samples of that.
I am convinced that the reason why public opinion has not been more sensitive upon the question of the Congo Free State, is that the terrible story has not been brought thoroughly home to the people.
Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II, in reply to the memorial of the Congo Reform Association (March 1905), Library of Congress copy (Internet Archive), Mar 1905. Self-published
IN REPLY TO MEMORIAL PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONCERNING AFFAIRS IN THE CONGO STATE BY THE CONGO REFORM ASSOCIATION

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