Part 1, Outer Station
Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees... They were dying slowly... nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation.Read in Books4Free →
The Grove of Death
From Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Marlow's encounter at the Outer Station with starving, dying African workers crawling away to die in the shade — the novel's most direct indictment of colonial brutality.
Part 1, Outer Station
The boy with white worsted around his neck — a haunting image of incomprehensible suffering.
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The chain gang: 'Six black men advanced in a file... I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope.'
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