One of the most famous images from the exposé of the enslavement and destruction of indigenous communities across the Amazon during the mad rush for rubber, then rapidly becoming one of the world’s most important commodities. Roger Casement and others helped bring attention to the devastations in the Americas and in Africa, including Joseph Conrad in his celebrated 1899 novel Heart of Darkness. In 1979, the American film director Francis Ford Coppola used the novel for his acclaimed film on the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now.