In September 1910, the human rights activist and anti-imperialist
Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon to investigate reports of
widespread human rights abuses in the vast forests stretching along
the Putumayo river. There, the Peruvian entrepreneur Julio Cesar
Arana ran an area the size of Belgium as his own private fiefdom;
his British registered company operated a systematic programme of
torture, exploitation and murder. Fresh from documenting the
scarcely imaginable atrocities perpetrated by King Leopold in the
Congo, Casement was confronted with an all too recognisable
scenario. He uncovered an appalling catalogue of abuse: nearly
30,000 Indians had died to produce four thousand tonnes of rubber.
From the Peruvian rainforests to the City of London, Jordan Goodman
recounts a crime against humanity that history has almost
forgotten, but whose exposure in 1912 sent shockwaves around the
world. Drawing on a wealth of original research, The Devil and Mr
Casement is a story of colonial exploitation and corporate greed
with enormous contemporary political resonance.
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