The Casement Project aims to highlight the principles and goals of Roger Casement concerning the rights of indigenous peoples globally. Above all, Casement was a humanitarian whose efforts highlighted the exploitation and atrocities in the Putumayo and Congo, bringing them to the forefront of global awareness. The articles in this section will pay tribute to his legacy by addressing similar issues faced by the world today.
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Britain's abandonment of the slave trade in 1807 was moved less by moral objections than by the fact that increasing competition by other countries had undermined its monopoly. Indeed, Britain used the need to end the slave trade as a pretext for direct intervention in Africa: as a result of British military action there to secure trade against...
The resurgence of Redmondism in Irish politics in recent years, i.e. the notion that Ireland's place in the world is as a source of materials and military personnel for Britain's (and America's) wars, is by no means an accidental phenomenon. It is a product of a lengthy campaign on the part of academic, artistic, political and media interests to...
