Alice Seeley Harris

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Alice Seeley Harris

Alice Seeley Harris (born May 24, 1870 in Malmesbury , England ; † November 24, 1970 in Guildford , England) was a British missionary and photographer whose documentary images helped to document human rights violations and atrocities in the Congo Free State under the Belgian King Leopold II . to make known to the public and end later.

Life

Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District

Harris was born in England in 1870 to Aldred and Caroline Seeley. In 1897 she went to the Congo Free State as a missionary . On May 6, 1898, she married John Hobbis Harris (1874–1940), an English missionary and opponent of slavery. With his support, she photographed the atrocities committed in the Congo under the regime of the Belgian King Leopold II . One of her most famous images, nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District (Abir Concession) , was published in 1904 in the work of King Leopold's Rule in Africa by Edmund Dene Morel . In Mark Twain's King Leopold's self-talk ( English King Leopold's Soliloquy ) of 1905, the picture was also printed. From 1906 she traveled through the USA and gave lectures on the injustice in the Congo Free State, which was dissolved in 1908 with the establishment of the Belgian Congo .

In 1933, her husband was knighted , giving her the title of Lady Alice . According to an interview, she did not want to be addressed with this title ("... don't call me lady!").

To celebrate its one hundredth birthday, she was in 1970 by the BBC for the program "Women of Our Time" (women of our time) interviewed.

literature

  • Pavlakis, Dean (2015). British Humanitarianism and the Congo Reform Movement, 1896-1913. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate.

Web links

Commons : Alice Seeley Harris  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
  • Mark Sealy et al .: Republic of the Congo. (pdf; 2.4 MB) Autograph ABP, July 13, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2018 (English, documentation about Harris with her pictures).;
  • zdf.de Documentation about the Congo

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Light+on+the+dark+continent%3a+the+photography+of+Alice+Seely+Harris...-a093009102
  2. ↑ http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/congo-dialogues
  3. ↑ Sybil Oldfield, Sir John Hobbis Harris in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; OUP 2004-09
  4. ↑ Morel 1904, p. 145
  5. ^ Judy Pollard Smith: Don't Call Me Lady - The journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris , First. 1st edition, Abbott Press, 20 Jan 2014, ISBN 978-1-45821-289-4 , p. 137.
  6. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/autographabp/alice-seeley-harris-interview
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Alice Seeley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British missionary and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmesbury
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1970
Place of death Guildford