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Routledge Research in Travel Writing

EDITED BY PETER HULME

University of Essex

AND TIM YouNGS ottingham

Trent University

1 Travel Writing

o r m ~

and Empire

The Poetics end Politics of Mobility

Edited by Julia Kuehn and

Paul Smethurst

2 Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-

Century British Travel Accounts

Leila Koivunen

3. Contemporary Travel Writing of

Latin America

Claire Lindsay

4 Travel Writing and Atrocities

Eyewitness Accoun1s of Colo niaiism

in

the Congo. Angola. and the Putumayo

Robert

M

Burroughs

Travel Writing and Atrocities

Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the

Congo Angola and the Putumayo

Robert M. Burroughs

R

~ o ~ I ~ ~ g ~ u p

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ork

london


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First published 2011

hy Routledge

270 :\hdison

Avenue. Nev.; York.

NY 100

6

Simult:ll1cous y

published

in the

UK

by Routlnlftc

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Figures

1.1

Portrait of Henry M. Stanley by Herbert

Ward,

from

Fiue Years

with

the Congo Cannibals

(1890).

1.2 E.J. Glavc and his porters at the Livingstone rrcc ,

29

July 1894, from Century (1896). C:omtesy

of

Cornell

University Library, i\'1aking of America Digital Collection. 43

2 1

Jack Turns the Tables , from

Herbert

Strang, SamfJa

A Story of the Ruhher Slaues o the Congo 1906 .

3.1 John H. Weeks, The Yandjali Tally ,

BatJtist

Missionary Herald , September

1907.

Photograph

reproduced

with

the kind permission

of

BMS World

Mission.

3.2 Alice Seeley Harris, Nsala of Wala with His

69

83

Daughter's Hand and Foot . Anti-Slauery International. 87

3.3 Swedish missionary holding mutilated arm of a boy.

Anti-Slauery

International. 89

3.4

Body

of man murdered by the

rubber sentries. From

the Official Organ

o(

the Congo Reform Association.

April 1907.

A

nti-Slauery International. 90

4.1 i\1ap

of

Europe Showing, in Red, the Proportionate

Area Covered hy the Congo Rivers and Its Affluents'',

from E.D.

Morel, Red

Rubber

11906).

100

4.2

Front cover

of

.John l-1arris,

Portuguese Slauery:

Britain s Dilemma 11913). 112

4.3

Skeleton

of

Slave on Path

through

the

Hungry

Country , from Henry \f/ Nevinson,

A

Modern

Slauery 1906 .

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HWN:

PAC:

PRO:

TNA

Anglo-Belgian India-Rubber Co.

Association

International

Africainc

Anti-Slavery

and

Aborigines Protection Society archives

Rhodes House

Oxford

University

Baptist

Missionary

Society

Baptist i\1issionary Society archives,

Angus

Library, Regent s

Park, Oxford

Congo Balolo Mission

Emin Pasha Relief

Expedition

Henry W.

Nevinson papers

Post-medieval

manuscripts

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Peruvian

Amazon Co.

Public

Record

Office

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Note on Place Names

To

avoid

incongruities \Vith quotations from late

nineteenth-century

and

early twentieth-century sources 1 use late nincteenth-cemury and early

twentieth-century

names

for

places

in

the Congo Angola

and the

Puru

mayo. f these arc

known

to be o s o l e t e ~ then I also give modern-day

place

names

in parenthesis fo lov.'ing the hrst mention in each chapter

and in the Index.


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Acknowledgments

I have accumulated a number of sizeable

debts

of gratit'tldc during

the

years

in v -hich this research

was

written

up as

a

PhD

thesis

and then converted

into its present form. The director of my studies at PhD level, Tim Youngs,

was, and continues to a constant source of encouragcrnent, gui dance,

and ahove all great insight. Phil Leonard, who

also

supervised my

studies,

gave incisive

close readings of

my thesis. As

the

examiners

of

my thesis,

Peter

Hulme

and Carl

Thompson not

only encouraged me to write this

book but also made helpful suggestions for it. The English department of

Nottingham

Trent

university, in particular its Centre for Travel \X'riting

Studies, was a

supportive

base for this research. At o u t l e d g e ~ Erica

\ '\fetter

and Liz Levine gave convivial advice to me at all stages of the production

o

this

hook.

A

number of

librarians and

archivists also have

given

me

their

time

and expertise. I am grateful

to

the

staff

at Nottingham Trem University,

the University of Nottingham, the Wellcome

Library

for the History and

Understanding of

Medicine,

the National Archives, the British

Library,

the

British Library of Political

and

Economic Sciences, i\nri-Sbvcry Inter

national, Angus Library of Regents Park College, Oxford, the Bodleian

Library and R

bodes

House

Library

of the University of Oxford,

the Library

of

Congress,

Washington, DC,

and

the

American

Baptist

Historical

Soci

ety, Atlanta,

GA. I am much obllged to Roy Bridges and Charles Swais

land

for providing invaluable tips in navigating collections at The National

Archives and Rhodes J--louse, respectively. This book s notes and Bibliog

raphy

make clear which scholarship has

contributed to

my

understanding

of its subject, hut here I

should

like to express my appreciation of "he \Vork

of

Angus

Mitchell

and,

working

together,

SCarnas () Sloch::iin and i\1ichael

O Sullivan, v.d10se diligent transcriptions and

editing

of

Roger Casement s

various private writings from his

Congo and Amazon travels have

facili

tated this research.

For

their

counsel and

couches

I thank Tara .i\1cGrath, Tim c;rimwood,

Joe Halls, Janine

Dillon,

and Alicia i\1oran.

For

their unconditional s u p ~

port

1 thank Gemma, Steve, and Nunta\van. I ovve special reu.>gnition to

my wife, Antoinette, for her kindness, humour, and intelligence, as

V.'ell

as


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XJY \rknotufr:dgmr:nts

much technical assisLJnce

of

my work. But above all, for every lesson

that

no one

else

could

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