Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim

BOKWALA
“DOWN IT CAME ON ME, LASH AFTER LASH.”
See page 58.
BOKWALA
THE STORY OF A CONGO VICTIM
BY A CONGO RESIDENT WITH A PREFACE BY H. GRATTAN GUINNESS, M.D.
LONDON THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 4 BOUVERIE ST. & 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD, E.C. 1910
Having personally visited the Upper Congo in the days preceding the establishment of the notorious rubber régime , and being intimately acquainted with the conditions of native life which then obtained, I have watched with profoundest pity and indignation the development of Congo slavery. Old-time conditions of savage barbarity were awful, but it has been reserved for so-called “Christian Civilisation” to introduce the system of atrocious oppression and hopeless despair under which, during the last fifteen years, millions of helpless natives have perished directly or indirectly, for whose protection Great Britain and the United States of America have special responsibility before God and men.
I heartily commend the book to all who are interested in the greatest humanitarian issue which has appealed to us during the last thirty years, and to those also who as yet know little or nothing of the Congo Iniquity.
H. GRATTAN GUINNESS, M.D.
Acting-Director of The Regions Beyond Missionary Union.
O Lord, how long shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear! even cry unto Thee out of violence, and Thou wilt not save!