Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the Year of Grace 1906

by E.D. Morel

235 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2026

About the author

Edmund Dene Morel, originally Georges Eduard Pierre Achille Morel de Ville, was a British journalist for the Manchester Chamber of commerce, author, pacifist, and politician, who in collaboration with Roger Casement, Morel led a publicity campaign against the independent Congo State, founding the Congo Reform Association. Furthermore he played a significant role in the British pacifist movement during the First World War, participating in the foundation and becoming secretary of the Union of Democratic Control, at which point he broke with the Liberal Party.