2 The Congo, and the Founding of its Free State: a Story of Work and Exploration. By HENRY M. STANLEY. In two volumes. New York : Harper & Brothers. 1885.↩↩ ...

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The horrific atrocities that took place in the Congo Free State are often compared to the Holocaust, with king Leopold II of Belgium being compared to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Between 1885 ...

The Congo supplies the U.S. with well over half the uranium produced in the non-Communist world; it also mines and exports 75% of the free world’s cobalt (essential for jet aircraft engines), 70 ...

The madness of greed and violence that engulfed Leopold’s Congo Free State was immortalized by Joseph Conrad in his novel “Heart of Darkness,” which he began writing in 1898 after working as ...

The so-called Congo Free State was anything but. It was, in fact, a giant forced labor camp, the personal possession of Leopold II, king of Belgium. For nearly 30 years, ...

BRUSSELS — The Royal Museum for Central Africa opened here in 1897 to celebrate Belgium’s new colonial triumph — the creation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II. His reign over the ...

Hon. E. Sumner Mansfield '68, Belgian Consul in Boston, delivered an interesting and convincing lecture last evening on "The Congo Question" in the Living Room of the Union. As an introduction to ...

If the whole Congo Free State is in slavery, as appears to be the case if Mr. MOREL'S account is true, a new agreement by the Powers is desirable, and one that shall not only abate the cruel ...