Red Rubber the Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished On the Congo F
Red Rubber the Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished On the Congo F
E D Edmund Dene Morel
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G. , rubber) and food, the Congolese official has time for no- thing, everything else lying outside the sphere of what is really required of him, save in a few and strictly excep- tional cases where, ov. 'ing to a variety of causes, different conditions prevail. With what does the Magistracy in the Congo concern itself? In the Europeanised towns of Boma and Matadi a number of trumpery little cases of litigation — rather encouraged than otherwise — occur. In the true Congo — the vast upper regio...n stretching from Stanley Pool to the Nile and the great Lakes — there is no litigation to speak of. There are no competing commercial firms, and there is no room for litigation between master and slave 1 The wretched native has been taught by bitter experience to shun Bula Matadi in whatever guise he appears before him. The Commission of Inquiry sorrowfully recognised that the "evangelical missionary" has come to be regarded by the native as the " only representative of equity and justice, "^ thus conferring upon him a prestige, 1 Which explains the laudable desire of the Congo Administra- tion to browbeat him into silence.
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