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Edmund Dene Morel was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician.
Reformer, rebel, political activist; amongst his many achievements E D Morel directed the first great humanitarian campaign of the 20th.

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Book Review: The Politics of Dissent: A Biography of E D Morel by Donald Mitchell

Reformer, rebel, political activist; amongst his many achievements E D Morel directed the first great humanitarian campaign of the 20th Century which brought King Leopold II of Belgium’s brutal and genocidal regime in the Congo to an end. Elaine Kellman recommends this biography to those interested in history, politics and international relations, as well as more specifically the history of the Congo, and the WW1.

The Politics of Dissent: A Biography of E D Morel. Donald Mitchell. Silverwood Books. 2014.

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Donald Mitchell’s biography of E D Morel (1873-1924), The Politics of Dissent, comes at a time when Morel has been almost forgotten, his memory and message “extinguished by silence”. The Politics of Dissent attempts to redress this, presenting Morel as a “reformer; rebel; political activist”. In particular, The Politics of Dissent focuses on two main events in Morel’s life, first, Morel’s popular success against King Leopold II’s regime in the Congo and secon

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Morel, Edmund Dene

By Christy Jo Snider

Edmund Dene Morel (1873-1924)
British journalist, pacifist, author, and politician Edmund Dene Morel, photographed here as a Member of Parliament between 1922 and 1924. Morel campaigned against slavery in the Congo Free State and was one of the founders and later secretary of the Union of Democratic Control. He was elected as a member of the Labour Party to fill one of the Dundee House of Commons seats in 1922. His election helped remove Winston Churchill from parliament. Although the Labour Party gained control of the government in 1924, Morel was disappointed not to receive an appointment to Ramsay MacDonald’s cabinet.
Bain News Service: E.D. Mail, M.P., black-and-white photograph, n.p., n.d.; source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-35737, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006011150/.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Morel, Edmund Dene

(Georges Edmond Morel)

British journalist, activist, and politician

Born 10 July 1873 in Paris, France

Died 12 February 1924 in Bovey Tracey, G

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E. D. Morel

British politician (1873–1924)

Edmund Dene Morel (born Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel Deville; 10 July 1873 – 12 November 1924) was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician.^[1]

As a young official at the shipping company Elder Dempster, Morel observed a fortune being made in the export of Congo rubber and the shipping in of guns and manacles. He correctly deduced that the rubber and other resources were being extracted from the population by force and began to campaign to expose the abuses. In collaboration with Roger Casement, Morel led a campaign against slavery in the Congo Free State, founded the Congo Reform Association and published the West African Mail. With the help of celebrities such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain, the movement successfully pressured the Belgian King Leopold II to sell the Congo Free State to the Belgian government, ending some of the human rights abuses perpetrated under his rule.

Morel played a significant role in the British pacifist movement during the First World War, participat