The devil and Mr. Casement : one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness

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The devil and Mr. Casement : one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness

Title remainder

one man's battle for human rights in South America's heart of darkness

Statement of responsibility

Jordan Goodman

Creator

• Goodman, Jordan

Subject

• Atrocities -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century
• Casement, Roger, 1864-1916
• Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916
• trueConsuls
• Consuls -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Forced labor
• Human rights
• Human rights -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century
• Imperialism
• trueImperialism -- Social aspects
• Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century
• trueIndians of South America
• Atrocities
• trueIndidgenous peoples of South America
• trueIndigenous peoples of South America
• Irish -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Peru -- History -- 20th century
• truePeru -- Social conditions
• Peruvian Amazon Company -- History
• Putumayo River Valley -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• trueRubber industry and trade
• Rubber industry workers -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century
• trueViolence against Indigenous people
• trueViolence against Native Americans
• Indians of South America -- Violence against -- Putumayo River Valley -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Accusations against the Peruvian rubber baron Julio César Arana had been making their way back to London, and the rumors were on everybody's lips: Arana was enslaving, torturing, and murdering the local Indians. Arana's Peruvian Amazon Company, with its headquarters in London's financial heart, was responsible. Casement was outraged by what he uncovered: nearly thirty thousand Indians had died to produce four thousand tons of rubber. When Casement's seven-hundred-page report of the Putumayo violence was published in London in 1912, it set off reverberations throughout the world. People were appalled that murderous acts were being carried out in the name of profit, all under the cloak of British respectability and fairness. The Peruvian Amazon Company was forced into liquidation, and its board of directors, including an aristocrat with ties to the royal family, was publicly shamed." -- dust jacket

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.898/9

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography