Africa, where the clash of different worlds led to conquest and colonization fuelled the greatest crime in human history:
the transatlantic slave trade. The 1884 West African Berlin Conference decided humanitarian intentions would guide imperial projects.
1884, Casement volunteered for the Sanford Exploring Expedition. 1888, he worked for a Baptist mission in Upper Congo, where he met Joseph Korzeniowski (later Joseph Conrad. Casement could have been the model for Kurtz in Heart of Darkness who matured from imperial servant to anti-colonial revolutionary.
1892, British Foreign Office recruited Casement for Oil Rivers Protectorate (Nigeria). 1899, Casement reported on armds supply routes for the Boers from Laurenco Marques. 1900, reported on Belgian reign of terror in the Congo. June 1903 Casement reported on atrocities in Belgian Congo based on his absolute integrity as a witness and his authentic voice of the oppressed in recording shocking misgovernment and full scale oppression. Casement mastered using the system to investigate the system. Caseement linked the nationalism of Africa, India and Ireland.
1906 attended Derry Feis and Donegal Gaeltacht. Casement was a prolific but anonymous pamphlet writer.
1909 The Crime of the Congo was published detailing crimes committed by the Belgian empire in the Belgian Congo. The City of London was financing a company committing atrocities comparable to the Congo horrors. Casement compiled the Putumayo Blue Book using Barbadan overseers as witnesses.
Casement wrote two Foreign Office reports January and March 1911 while supporting Congo Reform movement. Casement was knighted by King George V. Casement supported Southwest Connemara relief. Casement exposed imperial and colonial systems.
Casement formed the Irish Volunteers, November 1913, insisting both Irish Volunteer movements had the same aims. Casement visited German schiolar Kuno Meyer and the German front lines concluding - war condemns those who seek peace. A failed attempt to recruit an Irsih Legion from POWs failed. Casement returned to Ireland April 1916 in order to stop the Easter Rebellion.
Casement was captured and tried. H.G. Wells condemned the trial. Casement was a revolutionary leviathan. Government of Ireland by England rests on restraints not on law, as such demands no love, evokes no loyalty. Casement was hanged August 1916.
This writer examined Casement's writing style. The 'discovered Black Diaries' competely contradict the Putumayo Blue Book in date, location and content.