Another book by Morel is "The Black Man's Burden",
http://ia600307.us.archive.org/18/items/blackmansburden00moreuoft/blackmansburden00moreuoft.pdf
This was published in 1920, and here Morel offers a broader overview Of
Africa, post World War I.
Morel was noted for his contribution to the racist furore about the use of
African soldiers in Germany in 1920, shortly after this book was
completed.
See page 219 where he discusses the use of African troops:
"During the Great War of 1914-18, the French have used hundreds of
thousands of North and West African troops on the Western and Macedonian
Fronts. They quartered a large number of West African troops in Morocco.
They occupied the enemy consulates of Greece with these black troops. They
have employed them in Russia. They actually garrison German towns with
them. The atrocities perpetrated by these savage auxiliaries on the
Western front are known to every soldier. They have been found in
possession of eyeballs, fingers and heads of Germans in their haversacks.
Mr Chesterton's pious hope of seeing 'Asiatics and Africans on the verge
of savagery,' let loose against the Germans has been more than fulfilled."
It was the publication of his racist condemnation of the use of African
soldiers by the French in George Lansbury's paper, The Herald that led to
Claude McKay's response in The Workers' Dreadnought.
This book makes it easier to understand Morel's viewpoint, and how the man
who exposed the Belgian atrocities came to participate in a racist
campaign against African soldiers.
Fabian
> Hi Amma
>
> Thx for that and BTW you can download a full version of Morel's book "Red
> Rubber" <http://archive.org/details/redrubberstoryof00more> which exposed
> Leopolod's atrocities to Europe
> here<http://archive.org/details/redrubberstoryof00more>
> .
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Ohajuru <Http://about.me/michaelohajuru>
> 079 40 50 79 00
>
>
>
> On 15 September 2013 20:40, Amma Poku <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Michael, I'll share with others
>>
>> Amma
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Michael Ohajuru <[log in to unmask]>
>> *To:* [log in to unmask]
>> *Sent:* Sunday, 15 September 2013, 13:14
>> *Subject:* White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
>>
>> Folks
>>
>> With apologies to those who know the story of the Congo but for those
>> who
>> don't or missed this first time around on BBC Four, have a look at White
>> King, Red Rubber, Black Death <http://t.co/wR5uwhP6hs> the dreadful
>> story
>> of how Belgium gave its king Leopold II 50 Million Francs in
>> compensation
>> for taking the Congo on as colony, in face of the atrocities he
>> committed
>> there.
>>
>> An unsettling, disturbing story of greed and man's inhumanity to man on
>> a
>> par with the Holocaust or chattel slavery in America yet what Belgium's
>> King Leopold II did in the Congo sadly, remains a footnote in European
>> colonial history.
>>
>> BBC 4 Storyville's White King, Red Rubber, Black Death goes some way to
>> shedding some light on this dark, hidden piece of European colonial
>> history
>> and the part Britain played in exposing this dreadful wrong.
>>
>> BTW Britain gave 20Million pounds in
>> compensatio<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/>n
>> to its slave owners
>>
>> Michael Ohajuru <http://about.me/michaelohajuru>
>> 079 40 50 79 00
>>
>>
>>
>>
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