Place
Kinshasa (Leopoldville)
Capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; called Leopoldville in the Free State and the Belgian Congo.
- Also known as
- Leopoldville, Léopoldville
- Wikidata
- Q3838
Casement reached Leopoldville on 6 June 1903 and the Commission of Inquiry sat there at the end of October 1904.
Connections 3
involved in
- Casement's journey on the Upper Congo (1903) Primary record 1
- Commission of Inquiry of the Congo Free State (1904-05) Primary record 2
appears in
- Casement Report (1904) where the journey up the river began Primary record 1
Proof 2 sources
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Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (Africa No. 1, 1904), with the Congo State's note of 17 September 1903 and its annexes, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Accounts and Papers 1904 (Internet Archive copy), Feb 1904.
Primary record
I left Matadi on the 5th June, and arriving at Léopoldville on the 6th, remained in the neighbourhood of Stanley Pool until the 2nd July, when I set out for the Upper Congo.
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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
from the afternoon of the 26th to October the 31st it remained in Leopoldville where it sat daily.
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