The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but he was also a physician, humanitarian, and successful non-fiction writer. In THE CRIME OF THE CONGO, Doyle documents the atrocities committed in the Congo Free State, the personal possession of Leopold II of Belgium. Thousands of native Africans were forced to labor on rubber plantations for the benefit of their colonial overlords. The abuses of the Congo Free State, and worldwide denunciations when they came to light, were instrumental in the Belgian government assuming responsibility of the territory, and renaming it the Belgian Congo.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012541871
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	12/02/2010
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	325 KB

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician who began writing as a way to pass time between patients at his medical practice. Most famous for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Doyle wrote dozens of other works of fiction and several influential non-fiction works.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885