Born in Ireland in 1864, Roger Casement acted as British Consul in Africa and Brazil, where he denounced atrocities among Congolese and Putumayo rubber workers. He was knighted in 1911 and retired from the consular service two years later. In 1914, he attempted to enlist support, in America and Germany, for the Irish nationalist cause. Convicted of high treason, he was executed in London at the age of 51. A compulsive diarist, his so-called "Black" diaries were finally released into the public domain in 1994. At the time of his trial, these diaries--detailing his promiscuous homosexual activities in Brazil--were used to discredit and condemn him. Now an accurate transcript of the "Black" Diary , published here for the first time--as is his more public "White" Diary --offers the reader the opportunity to judge its authenticity--still a matter of heated debate. Together, they take us deep into the mind of the bravest, most selfless humanitarian of the Edwardian age.
Roger Casement Book order (chronological)
Roger Casement was a humanitarian campaigner, an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist. A British consul by profession, he gained renown for his reports on human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru, but was more widely known for his dealings with Germany preceding the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. His experiences with colonialism, particularly in the Congo, steered him toward anti-imperialist and Irish separatist convictions. Casement sought German support for an Irish rebellion against British rule, ultimately leading to his arrest and execution for treason.
The Crime Against Europe
The Causes of the War and the Foundations of Peace