Congo Free State - Wikipedia
The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo (French: État indépendant du Congo), was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of …
Congo Free State | Historical State, Imperialism, Africa | Britannica
2024年9月20日 · Congo Free State, former state in Africa that occupied almost all of the Congo River basin, coextensive with the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in the 1880s as the private holding of a group of European investors headed by Leopold II, …
Atrocities in the Congo Free State - Wikipedia
Civilian victims of mutilation by Free State authorities. From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium.
Congo Free State (1885-1908) - Blackpast
2023年1月20日 · The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo, was a private possession owned by King Leopold II of Belgium from 1885 to 1908. King Leopold II became interested in the region during Sir Henry Morton Stanley’s exploration of the Congo River between 1874 and 1877.
Belgian King Establishes Congo Free State - Education
On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, Leopold privately owned the region.
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Encyclopedia Britannica
5 天之前 · Leopold’s thinly veiled colonial ambitions paved the way for the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884–85), which set the rules for colonial conquest and sanctioned his control of the Congo River basin area to be known as the Congo Free State (1885–1908).
Belgium's Heart of Darkness - History Today
2012年10月10日 · The Congo Free State evolved from a vanity possession into a slave plantation. Leopold’s hell operated by an insane logic. Villages were set quotas of rubber and the gendarmerie were sent in to collect it – a process that was sped up by looting, arson and rape.
The Creation of the Congo Free State - historydaily.com
2024年7月1日 · The Congo Free State is one of the most brutal colonial regimes in Africa and has been ever since it was founded when King Leopold II of Belgium took these lands as his personal fiefdom on July 1st, 1885.
Congo Free State
Welcome to Congo Free State, a website for learning about the Congo Free State and the transnational movement for Congo reform at the turn of the twentieth century. This site includes details of the Congo reform activists, collections of primary documents from the era and the key figures involved; a bibliography of the key texts produced on the ...
Leopold II | Biography, Facts, & Legacy | Britannica
2024年9月6日 · Although Leopold II established Belgium as a colonial power in Africa, he is best known for the widespread atrocities that were carried out under his rule, as a result of which as many as 10 million people died in the Congo Free State.