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Farrar Straus And Giroux
Jordan Goodman
The Devil And Mr Casement: One Man's Battle For Human Rights In South America's
Heart Of Darkness
N/A
2010
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Publisher > Farrar Straus And Giroux
Author > Jordan Goodman
Title > The Devil And Mr Casement: One Man's Battle For Human Rights
In South America's Heart Of Darkness
Issue > N/A
Year > 2010
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ISBN > 9781429936392
Pages > 343
Genre > Biography-And-Autobiography History Politics Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2010-02
Release > 2026-10-07
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THE STORY OF AN IMPERIAL TRAGEDY THAT SENT SHOCKWAVES AROUND THE WORLD In
September 1910 the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on
a mission for the British government to investigate reports of widespread
humanrights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River Accusations
against the Peruvian rubber baron Julio Csar Arana had been making their
way back to London and the rumors were on everybodys lips Arana was
enslaving torturing and murdering the local Indians Aranas Peruvian Amazon
Company with its headquarters in Londons financial heart was responsible
Casement was outraged by what he uncovered nearly 30000 Indians had died to
produce 4000 tons of rubber When Casements 700page report of the violence
was published in London in 1912 it set off reverberations throughout the
world People were appalled that murderous acts were being carried out under
the cloak of British respectability The Peruvian Amazon Company was
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