In The Ghost of King Leopold, author Adam Hochschild chronicles numerous attempts to challenge the actions of King Leopold's control over the Congo. This was to reach an international audience at the time of the 20th century. Protesters used various writing techniques to make their case. For example, the use of direct letters to officials, publication of “open letters”, newspaper articles and public speeches. These demonstrators were George Washington Williams, William Sheppard, Edmund Dene Morel and Roger Casement. These demonstrators became aware of the situation in Congo in different ways. They also had diversity in the way they protested through their writings. Although Edmund Dene Morel and Roger Casement share a comparative approach, George Washington Williams was a black American. He had arrived in the Congo by a route that almost seemed to have taken him through several different lives. He was in the U.S. Army, fought, attended college and graduated from Newton in 1874. Williams married and became a minister. It also marked a turning point in human rights literature and investigative journalism. This work is entitled An Open Letter to His Majesty Serne Léopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Congo Free State, by Colonel the Honorable Geo.W. Williams, of the United States of America(102). In addition to submitting a statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee requesting recognition of the International Congo Association. Williams intended to go to the Congo to collect material for his book. As Williams sailed up the great river he had time to travel in Africa. When he reached Stanley Falls, he could no longer contain what he had felt and seen. He then writes in the middle of the paper......inside as soon as possible, and to send reports as soon as possible” (195). Casement was nineteen years old when he first saw the Congo while working on an Elder Dempster ship. For two years, he had been sending reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the difficult conditions prevailing in Congo Leopold. He spent days at Lake Tumba where rubber slavery operations were taking place. Count the number of people held hostage in a village because they did not meet the rubber quota. Casement wrote daily in his journal of the horror he had faced during his adventure. Casement found someone to share his feelings about the situation in Congo with. He had read the writings of Edmond Morel and wanted to meet him. The two men shared evidence of what they discovered in Congo. Together, Morel and Casement would form an organization devoted primarily to campaigning for justice in the Congo..