---
title: 'Atrocities in the Kongo Free State'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'David Cyrus Rankin'
- 'William Henry Sheppard'
date: 1900-02-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'Politics'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Micah 6'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/rankin-sheppard-1900-atrocities-in-the-kongo-free-state
---

# Atrocities in the Kongo Free State

A missionary's graphic report exposes massacres and cannibalism in the Kongo Free State and urges protest. Also brief political dispatches on Bryan's tour and Congressional territorial policy.

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