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- Alice_Seeley_Harris abstract "Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970) was an English missionary and an early documentary photographer. Her photography helped to expose the human rights abuses in the Congo Free State under the regime of Leopold II, King of the Belgians.FamilyAlice Seeley was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England. Her father was Alfred Seeley and mother was Caroline, her sister was Caroline Alfreda, a school teacher who never married. Alice married John Hobbis Harris (later Sir John) at a Registry Office in London. They had four children Alfred John, Margaret Theodora, Katherine Emmerline (known as “Bay”) and Noel Lawrence. Alice spent many years in Frome, Somerset and died aged 100yrs old in 1970 at Lockner Holt, in Surrey.CareerIn 1889, aged 19 yrs, Alice entered the Civil Service and was later appointed to the Accountant General’s office in GPO London. Alice gave her spare time to Frederick Brotherton Meyer’s mission work at Regent’s Park Chapel and later Christ Church, in Lambeth.Alice left the Civil Service to enter Doric Lodge, the RBMU’s (Region Beyond Missionary Union, previously the Congo Balolo Mission) Missionary Training College and in 1894, met her future husband John Hobbis Harris. Finally in 1897, after seven years of trying, Alice was accepted to go out to the Congo Free State. Shortly afterwards, Alice and John got engaged and were married on 6 May 1898.On the 10 May 1898, Alice and John departed on the SS Cameroon to the Congo Free State as missionaries with the Congo Balolo Mission, it was to be her ‘honeymoon’. They arrived in the Congo three months later, on the 4 August 1898, and then travelled to the Mission Station Ikau near Basankusu.Alice was appalled and saddened at what she witnessed in the so-called Congo Free State, and began campaigning for the human rights of the Congolese natives to be recognised.CampaignerAlice was stationed with her husband John, from 1898 – 1901 at the Mission Station at Ikau, Ikau is close to the River Lulanga which is a tributory of the River Congo (in the Balolo Tribal region). Later, from 1901 - 1905 they were stationed at the Mission Station at Baringa. Baringa is a village in Tshuapa District, Befale Territory in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It stands on the banks of the Maringa River, approximately 100km upriver from Basankusu.During her time in the Congo, Alice taught English to the local children but, her most important contribution was to photograph the injuries that were sustained by the Congelese natives at the hands of the Overseers of King Leopold II of Belgium.Leopold was partly exploiting the local population so fiercely to profit from increased rubber demand after the invention of the pneumatic or inflatable tire by John Boyd Dunlop in Belfast in 1887. Methods of coercion included whipping, hostage-taking, rape and murder, but severing of a hand or foot was the most common method. Initially Alice's photographs were used in Regions Beyond, the magazine of the Congo Balolo Mission. In 1902, the pair returned to Britain temporarily. In 1904 Alice's photographs reached wider distribution including inside a pamphlet titled Congo Slavery that was prepared by Mrs. H. Grattan-Guinness, wife of the editor of Regions Beyond and in King Leopold's rule in Africa by E. D. Morel. The same year saw the founding of the Congo Reform Association by Morel.In 1905, Alice and her husband toured the United States, presenting her images at 200 meetings in 49 cities via magic lantern screenings.In 1906 Alice and her husband began working for Morel's Congo Reform Association.In December 1906 the daily paper New York American used Harris' photographs to illustrate articles on atrocities in the Congo for an entire week.In November 1908 Leopold ceded administration of the Congo Free State to the Belgian government, thus creating the Belgian Congo.In 1908, Alice and John became joint organizing secretaries of the Congo Reform Association and in 1911, John became organising secretary of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society - a position he held until his death in 1940. Alice held no official position but assisted her husband and continued her documentary photography.Upon their later return in 1911–12 period, they noted immensely improved conditions and later produced a book, Present Conditions in the Congo, illustrated with Alice's photographs.In 1933, Alice's husband John was knighted for his services to humanity and Alice became Lady Alice, but is known for saying "...don't call me Lady!" Some commentators think that Alice should have received an honour for her services, in her own right, in being one of the first people to use photography in a human rights campaign.In 1970, Alice reached 100 years old and was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 on a programme "Women of Our Time"".
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