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"The Belgian Congo at the turn of the century was the world of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and a brutal time in African history, when European companies were slaughtering the Congolese in an effort to harvest the rubber needed for telegraph and electrical cables. William Sheppard was there to record the atrocities and to help pioneer a worldwide civil rights movement on behalf of the Congolese people.". "Sheppard, an African American, was born in Virginia only days before the end of the Civil War. After graduating from the night school of the Hampton Institute, he went on to study theology at the Tuscaloosa Theological Institute, now Stillman College, where he received his graduate degree. Shortly afterward, he requested a mission in Africa, which was denied him until a suitable white man could be found to accompany him.". "In 1890, at the age of twenty-four, Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo with Samuel Lapsley, a white man who had grown up on a plantation and was the son of a prominent Alabama judge. Lapsley died of fever barely a year later, but Sheppard remained for more than twenty years, running a mission in Africa staffed by black Americans.". "By m

Author

Kennedy, Pagan

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670030361

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Memoir

Rating

3.53 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13