E. D. Morel
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title:
E. D. Morel
text:
Edmund Dene Morel was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician. As a young official at the shipping company Elder Dempster, Morel observed a fortune being made in the export of Congo rubber and the shipping in of guns and manacles. He correctly deduced that the rubber and other resources were being extracted from the population by force and began to campaign to expose the abuses. In collaboration with Roger Casement, Morel led a campaign against slavery in the Congo Free
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British politician (1873–1924)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Morel
date created:
2005-10-05T21:17:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T15:05:45Z
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