5/15/2023 0 Comments Booker washingtonTogether the two associations cultivated public opinion and lobbied their governments to alleviate the suffering in the Congo. Yet, outside Britain, only in the United States did the cause of Congo reform become a truly mass movement. He believed that the mobilization of Britain would stir the conscience of the rest of the world if “the British people could be really roused, the world might be roused” and Leopold’s brutal regime would be eradicated.2 With his assistance, branches of the CRA sprouted up across Europe. horrors was the honorary secretary of the Congo Reform Association (CRA), E. As the foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, later remarked, “no external question for at least thirty years has moved the country so strongly and so vehemently”.1 At the forefront of the movement to publicize the. Du Bois, and reveals how their theories continue to define contemporary race, class, and culture.Īt the outset of the twentieth century, reports of atrocities in the administration of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium excited the moral outrage of the British public. Zimmerman reconstructs the social science of the global South formulated by such thinkers as Max Weber and W.E.B. He looks at the forms of resistance pioneered by African American freedpeople, Polish migrant laborers, African cotton cultivators, and other groups exploited by, but never passive victims of, the growing colonial political economy. Zimmerman shows how the people of Togo, rather than serving as a blank slate for American and German ideologies, helped shape their region's place in the global South. The cross-fertilization of histories and practices led to the emergence of a global South, reproduced social inequities on both sides of the Atlantic, and pushed the American South and the German Empire to the forefront of modern colonialism. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind this endeavor, and the economic, political, and intellectual links connecting Germany, Africa, and the southern United States. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T.
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