African American explorer and priest who traveled to the Congo in the 1890s and became a key opponent of the Belgian administration there. Sheppard joined forces with Edmund Dene Morel and Roger Casement to criticize King Leopold II for his human rights abuses. Later, he was tried in the Congo for supporting Congolese resistance movements. His acquittal further the strengthened the Congo reform movement.
William Sheppard Quotes in King Leopold’s Ghost
The King Leopold’s Ghost quotes below are all either spoken by William Sheppard or refer to William Sheppard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Due to the missionaries, from the mid-1890s on Leopold had to deal with scattered protests, like Sheppard's articles, about severed hands and slaughtered Africans. But the critics at first captured little attention, for they were not as skilled at public relations as the king, who deployed his formidable charm to neutralize them.
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William Sheppard Quotes in King Leopold’s Ghost
The King Leopold’s Ghost quotes below are all either spoken by William Sheppard or refer to William Sheppard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 11
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Due to the missionaries, from the mid-1890s on Leopold had to deal with scattered protests, like Sheppard's articles, about severed hands and slaughtered Africans. But the critics at first captured little attention, for they were not as skilled at public relations as the king, who deployed his formidable charm to neutralize them.
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