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| Keywords: Victim of Congo atrocities, Congo, ca. 1890-1910 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-19).jpg Congo Balolo Mission holding the arm of a Congolese man colonial Belgian Congo present day Democratic Republic of the Congo The missionary is probably Mr Wallbaum who wears a light safari suit and a pith helmet and the Congolese man wears a loin cloth The missionary holds up his companion's arm at the elbow and points to the Congolese man's missing hand The Congolese man is likely to have been a victim of the Congo atrocities punishment murders and mutilations particularly amputation of the right hand on living victims or after death that took place on colonial rubber plantations in the Congo Free State territory owned by Belgian King Leopold II who expolited it for its plant and mineral resources Workers on rubber plantations were paid with worthless goods and it was in noticing this imbalance of trade that shipping clerk Edmund Morel reported in his columns for The West African Mail noticing that large numbers of weapons were going into the country to control the rubber workers An investigation took place in the British Parliament but missionaries felt that they could do nothing in the face of veiled threats by King Leopold II on whose territory thet were preaching In 1895 Dr Harry Guinness heard first hand witness accounts of amputations and became involved in the cause to end the brutality on the plantations involving himself in the Congo Reform Association in 1904 International intervention forced Leopold II to abdicate in the same year and although reforms began under his successor Albert change in the rubber plantations would not take effect for some time This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo Balolo Mission a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900 Photographer Unknown Subject personal name Wallbaum Filename IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-19 tif Coverage date 1890/1910 Subject unesco Genocide; Clergy Part of collection International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 Part of subcollection Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity University of Edinburgh U K ca 1900-ca 1940s Subject corporate name Congo Balolo Mission Repository name Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-19 tif Repository address The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity New College Mound Place Edinburgh EH1 2LX United Kingdom Geographic subject country Congo Format aacr2 lantern slides 8 2 x 8 2cm Geographic subject continent Africa Rights Contact the repository for details Part of series Regions Beyond Missionary Union Congo Lantern Slides CSCNWW33/OS10 Repository email divinity-CSWC ed ac uk Date created 1890/1910 Publisher of the digital version University of Southern California Libraries Subject aat genre portraits Format aat lantern slides; photographs Access conditions http //www ed ac uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources Geographic subject agricultural sites File CSCNWW33/OS10/19 Subject lcsh Crimes against humanity; Atrocities; Rubber plantations; Missionaries 1890/1910 date created author http //digitallibrary usc edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78038 PD-old-70-1923 Amputees Congo Men of Africa People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1900s Congo-Balolo Mission Missionaries Atrocities of the Congo Free State Amputee Missionaries from the United Kingdom Congo-Balolo Magic lantern images Images from USC Digital Library uploaded by Fæ International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 | ||||
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