The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 book by British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, a private state established and controlled by the King of the Belgians, Leopold II. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- The Crime of the Congo
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. How The Congo Free State Came To Be Founded
- 2. The Development Of The Congo State
- 3. The Working Of The System
- 4. First Fruits Of The System
- 5. Further Fruits Of The System
- 6. Voices From The Darkness
- 7. Consul Roger Casement’s Report
- 8. King Leopold’s Commission And Its Report
- 9. The Congo After The Commission
- 10. Some Catholic Testimony As To The Congo
- 11. The Evidence Up To Date
- 12. The Political Situation
- 13. Some Congolese Apologies
- 14. Solutions
- Appendix
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