On NPR tonight, September 9, there was an interview with the author (I forget his name) of "King Leopold's Ghost," and Twain's name came up. King Leopold, of course, colonized the Congo at the end of the last century and instituted slavery for the collection of natural rubber. A dock worker in England noticed ships came from the Congo laden with valuable rubber and ivory, but returned, not with goods for trade, but with only soldiers and munitions. He deduced, correctly, that slavery was at work. The 25-year old dock worker - sorry, I don't remember his name either - singlehandedly started an international human rights movement. He started with the U.S., which had been the first country to recognize formally King Leopold's Congo (that's right, it was his alone for 23 years until the scandal forced him to hand it over to Belgium). In any case, the dock worker met up with Twain, who reportedly gave a number of lectures in the U.S. about the abominable conditions in the Congo. The NPR program was the WHYY interview program that normally follows All Things Considered. Did anyone else hear the program? Does anyone know how instrumental Twain's role was in publicizing the atrocities in the Congo?