Person

Roger Casement

British consul at Boma whose 1903 journey and report on the Upper Congo were printed by Parliament in 1904.

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Congo Reform Association 1904 Primary record 1
English: the Belgian experts write that Morel and Casement co-founded the Congo Reform Association in 1904.

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Special commission to examine the Independent State of the Congo and Belgium's colonial past: findings of the experts (Chamber of Representatives, DOC 55 1462/006, in French), Chamber of Representatives of Belgium, 7 Mar 2024. Primary record
Morel et Casement cofondent l'Association pour la réforme du Congo en 1904
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.
I HAVE the honour to submit my Report on my recent journey on the Upper Congo.
The Crime of the Congo, by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hutchinson (Project Gutenberg), 1909. Scholarship & press
the historic report of Consul Roger Casement confirmed, and in some ways amplified, all that had reached Europe from other sources.
CONSUL ROGER CASEMENT'S REPORT

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