Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo

by Herbert Strang

EN·~11 hours·35 chapters

Chapters

35 total

SAMBA - A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo

0:32

PREFACE

4:38

CHAPTER I - The Coming of the White Man

13:45

CHAPTER II - "Rubber is Death"

23:29

CHAPTER III - Monsieur Elbel

16:39

CHAPTER IV - Night Alarms

20:52

CHAPTER V - The Order of Merit

15:49

CHAPTER VI - Samba is Missing

20:42

CHAPTER VII - Blood Brothers

18:01

CHAPTER VIII - Jack in Command

21:34

Description

In the dense, sun‑drenched forests of the Congo, a young man named Samba lies amid the sand, his dark skin gleaming like polished ebony. The backdrop is a land promised as a civilising mission but already scarred by the ruthless quest for rubber, a commodity that has become a death sentence for the native

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Duration

~11 hours (654K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Al Haines

Release date

Mar 5, 2012

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39061

Subjects

Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Juvenile fiction Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Juvenile fiction Black people -- Africa -- Juvenile fiction Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Juvenile fiction PZ

About the author

Herbert Strang

Herbert Strang was the shared pen name of two Oxford University Press editors who filled early twentieth-century boys’ fiction with daring voyages, historical battles, imperial adventures, and ingenious escapes. Their fast-moving stories brought the spirit of Jules Verne and G. A. Henty to a new generation of young readers.

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