Missionary's house at Yalemba. Material imported from Europe. Mr. Harris on verandah
Mongo woman at Bokeri, Baringa – Lopori District, upper Congo
Mongo woman of Bokeri, Lopori – Maringa District. Upper Congo
Mother and child of Mongo tribe, upper Congo
Mother and her twin sons at Baringa, upper Congo. All wearing the badge of honour across the forehead
Mother of the mutilated lad, Impongi. Background shews [sic] house barricaded against nightly prowls of leopards
Mr. and Mrs. Harris conversing with chief in Bangala territory
Mr. Harris and Interpreter at Benguella, conversing with repatriated slaves who are sick.
Native market in Loanda
Native market, Baringa, Upper Congo
Native trader and family at Landana
Natives of Bomati dancing on receipt of news that rubber tax was at an end
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One Man and Four Women
One man and four women. This image formed part of the Harris Lantern Slide Collection. Under King Leopold II the Congo Free State used mass forced labour to extract rubber from the jungle for the European market. As consumer demand grew King Leopold II's private army - the Force Publique - used violent means to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including murder, mutilation, rape, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband Reverend John H. Harris were missionaries in the Congo Free State from the late 1890s. Alice produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the African rubber labourers. Her photographs are considered to be an important development in the history of humanitarian campaigning. The images were used in a number of publications. The Harrises also used the photographs to develop the Congo Atrocity Lantern Lecture which toured Britain and the the USA raising awareness of the issue of colonial abuses under King Leopold II's regime. Source: Antislavery International.
One Man and Two Women
One man and two women. This image formed part of the Harris Lantern Slide Collection. Under King Leopold II the Congo Free State used mass forced labour to extract rubber from the jungle for the European market. As consumer demand grew King Leopold II's private army - the Force Publique - used violent means to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including murder, mutilation, rape, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband Reverend John H. Harris were missionaries in the Congo Free State from the late 1890s. Alice produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the African rubber labourers. Her photographs are considered to be an important development in the history of humanitarian campaigning. The images were used in a number of publications. The Harrises also used the photographs to develop the Congo Atrocity Lantern Lecture which toured Britain and the the USA raising awareness of the issue of colonial abuses under King Leopold II's regime. Source: Antislavery International and Panos Pictures.
One of the Congo state chefferies with his wives
Passengers requested to "Get out and walk" on Mayumbe railway
Pot making at Bopoto, upper Congo
Pounding maize on the Kasai
