The Guilt of Delay, Slavery in the Belgian Congo, Punch cartoon, 1909
Cartoon from an original Punch or the London Charivari Magazine 24 November 1909 by Leonard Raven-Hill (1867- 1942). in 1909 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle released a book "The Crime of the Congo" about human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, a private state established and controlled by the King of the Belgians, Leopold II. Info from wiki: "Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo—initially by the collection of ivory—and after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s by forced labour from the natives to harvest and process rubber. Under his regime millions of the Congolese people died: modern estimates range from one million to fifteen million, with a consensus growing around 10 million. Human-rights abuses under his régime contributed significantly to these deaths. Reports of deaths and abuse led to a major international scandal in the early twentieth century and the Belgian government ultimately forced Leopold to relinquish control of the colony to Belgian civil administration in 1908." In this powerful condemnatory cartoon a slave driver is seen whipping a slave whilst the world debates what's going on. The title is The Guilt of Delay. The slave driver is saying "I'm all right. They're still talking." Probably a reference to the Great Congo Debate of 19 November 1909 in the Albert Hall.
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