Democratic Republic of Congo

a) After the age of fifteen Edmund Morel worked for Elder Dempster steamship company in Liverpool. While working there he noticed that thousands of rifles and huge quantities of cartridges were being sent to the Congo, but relatively few trade goods, and definately not enough to consider the quantities of rubber and ivory obtained in return. Edmund resigned and started a campaign that resulted in the formal establishment of the Congo Reform Association in 1904 a movement sustained by Arthur Conan Doyle, Roger Casement, and lots of other members of the liberal establishment. Doyle admired Edmund and cast him as the journalist Edward D. Malone in his novel The Lost World.

b) If the Congo Free State existed in the 21st century, Edmund could have used email, internet, T.V., cellphone, phone, Facebook, and much more technology to get his message spread.