That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience..

Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its...

Self-government is our right,” [Roger Casement] declared. “A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to...