The New York Times19 天
THE CASE OF THE CONGO FREE STATE.
We have examined with some care the statement of the Belgian Minister to this country in the current number of The North American Review with reference to "Conditions in the Congo Free State." ...
The New York Times6 年
CONGO FREE STATE TRADE.
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Cambridge University Press1 年
The Congo State
The book documents nineteenth-century colonial activity after King Leopold II (1835–1909) assumed private control of the Congo Free State following the Berlin Conference in 1884. Exposed by the ...
National Bureau of Economic Research4 年
Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State
Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo Free State to examine ...
BBC4 年
Leopold II: Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past
Leopold II ruled Belgium from 1865-1909 - activists want this statue in Brussels removed due to his brutal regime in Congo Free State Inside the palatial walls of Belgium's Africa Museum stand ...
BBC5 年
The horrific consequences of rubber's toxic past
The photo was taken in 1904 at a missionary outpost in Baringa, in what was then called the Congo Free State. The man's name was Nsala and his wife and children had just been killed. Alice Seeley ...