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Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo

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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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~11 hours (654K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Al Haines

Release date

2012-03-05

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

Behind this pen name were two Oxford University Press editors who teamed up to write brisk, imaginative adventure stories for young readers. Their books mixed history, empire-era action, and schoolboy daring, and they became a familiar part of early 20th-century British children's fiction.

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