King Leopold's ghost
Slave labor
Colonialism
Forced labor
Kolonialismus
Autochtones
Ethnische Beziehungen
Africa
Genocide
History, 19th Century
Indigenous peoples
Relations raciales
History, 20th Century
Antislavery movements
Human rights
Politics
Race relations
Politique et gouvernement
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Politics and government
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its p…
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