20th Century Humanitarianism
Many people who were active in the CRA later would go on to work with organizations that continued to campaign against enslavement, abuse, and poverty such as Anti-Slavery International and Save the Children.
“The Congo Reform Association did a lot of training of other people, most importantly John and Alice Harris. [They] took everything they learned from Morel with them into Anti-Slavery. You can see them altering Anti-Slavery to be more like the Congo Reform Association.” - Dr. Dean Pavlakis, Carroll College Professor
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“Harris brought what he had learned to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, seeking a wider base and, after the war, lobbying international institutions. None of the organizations that followed would confine themselves...they would marry the techniques of domestic philanthropy to an international agenda, relying less on individual heroics and more on institutional practices to influence governments around the world. By the late twentieth century, humanitarian great-power politics now involved a network of countries.”
-The Development of British Overseas Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Campaign
-The Development of British Overseas Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Campaign
“The Congo reform movement opened the door to a revitalized overseas humanitarianism in the twentieth century, the age of Anti-Slavery International, Save the Children, Oxfam, and Amnesty International.” -Dr. Dean Pavlakis These groups were inspired by Morel and those that he worked with. Those that had worked with him would guide new organizations and continued to lead their own campaigns, benefiting people globally. |
“He supposed that truth and logic should be enough for men always. It was on this supposition that he had carried a successful close to the emancipation of the Congo, perhaps the the greatest single-handed fight that any man has ever won.”
-Colonel Wedgwood, E.D. The Man and His Work
-Colonel Wedgwood, E.D. The Man and His Work