Arthur Conan Doyle's The Crime Of The Congo

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. Although Doyle's family was well-respected in the art world, his father, Charles, who was a life-long alcoholic, had few accomplishments to speak of. Mary, Doyle's mother, was a lively, well-educated woman who likes to read. He especially likes to tell to his young son's outlandish stories. As Doyle would later anamnesis in his biography, "In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories she would tell me stand out so clearly that they obscure the real facts of my life." At the age of 9, Doyle bid a tearful goodbye to his parents and was shipped off to England. When Doyle graduated from Stonyhurst College in 1876, his parents

Jean moved to Crowborough in Sussex, where he gave her three children. Two years later, the public discovered the crimes committed in Congo by the Belgian administration. Conan Doyle decided to take action at an international level by publishing The Crime of the Congo, sending several articles in newspapers and corresponding with the President of the United States and the Emperor of Germany. They were all good in twenty years to stop these crimes that were victims of slavery in Africa for more than a hundred years. Conan Doyle intervened in 1910 to correct the truth in the case of Oscar Slater, a German Jew who was accused of murder and sentenced to death. He took care of serious irregularities in the police investigation. He tried to prove it by believing that man was innocent. He didn't success completely but managed to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1911, Conan Doyle drove his green 16 horse-power Dietrich-Lorraine from Germany to England for 15 days during The Prince Henry Tour. In 1912, Conan Doyle created a new character that will mark the literary world: the Professor Challenger in the novel: The Lost World. In October 1916, Conan Doyle announced his conversion to spirituality. In the last years of his life, the salvation of mankind has turned into a "crusader" which preaches through science. Thus, from 1920 to 1923, he gave a series of lectures about spiritualism in Australia, in USA and in Canada. In 1924 he published his autobiography, Memories and Adventures, The Psychic Bookshop in London, which deals with the regulation of his own work, opened a dedicated spiritual bookstore. Thus, from 1920 to 1923, he gave a series of lectures on spirituality in Australia, the United States and Canada. In 1924 he published his autobiography, Ants and Adventures, and the London Spiritual Bookstore, which deals with the regulation of his own work, opened