Project Gutenberg 2022-02-10 Public domain in the USA. 134 Congo resident Resident, A Congo Guinness, H. Grattan (Henry Grattan) 1861 1915 Guinness, Henry Grattan Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim $aUnited Kingdom :$bThe Religious Tract Society,$c1910. Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim" by a Congo resident is a first-person narrative written as a historical account in the early 20th century. The story unfolds through the eyes of Bokwala, a native of the Congo, detailing his experiences from childhood in a chief's family to his tragic life as a slave, first to cannibals and then under oppressive colonial rule. This poignant tale encapsulates the brutal realities faced by the indigenous populace under exploitative systems, including the infamous rubber trade and its dehumanizing impact. At the start of the story, Bokwala reflects on his happy childhood days in his father's village, Ekaka, where he lived free until a dire warning from an elder about cannibal attacks is disregarded, leading to his capture. As he recounts his early life, we learn about his comfortable existence with family, traditional customs, and the ominous fear of cannibals. Following a failed fishing expedition, Bokwala and his peers are taken captive, setting off a chain of dehumanizing events that chronically illustrate his helplessness in the face of both cannibal enslavement and the brutal exploitation wrought by European colonizers. This narrative provides crucial insights into the sociopolitical context of the Congo during a time of rampant exploitation and suffering. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/bokwalastoryofco00cong 20180303124950congoresid 1910 GB Reading ease score: 70.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Slavery -- Congo (Democratic Republic) HT Text Category: Biographies Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) 202058 2025-06-26T12:33:50.584770 text/html 172401 2024-10-18T19:17:00 text/html 597907 2025-06-26T12:33:57.071700 application/epub+zip 612280 2025-06-26T12:33:53.020716 application/epub+zip 143545 2025-06-26T12:33:51.725721 application/epub+zip 741283 2025-06-26T12:33:59.792740 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 716261 2025-06-26T12:33:56.001706 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 190621 2022-09-30T09:45:19.450159 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 153035 2025-06-26T12:33:49.856727 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 132945 2024-10-18T19:17:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17573 2025-06-26T12:34:00.051681 application/rdf+xml 17860 2025-06-26T12:33:51.871791 image/jpeg 3225 2025-06-26T12:33:51.797736 image/jpeg 678404 2025-06-26T12:33:50.610721 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog