The New York Times6y
MASSACRE IN CONGO STATE; Missionaries Say Villages Have Been Burned, Many People Slain, and Some Eaten by State Troops.
The Southern Presbyterian Board of Missions in this city received letters to-day from the Rev. L.C. Vass and the Rev. H.P. Hawkins, missionaries of the church stationed at Luebo, Congo Free State ...
BBC5y
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 ...
The New York Times6y
CONGO FREE STATE TRADE.
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The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa Is the Congo River—For Those Who Dare to Take It
In 1885 Belgium’s King Leopold II colonized the Congo Free State, a country nearly 80 times the size of his own, damning all cost and regard for human rights in his frenzied quest to exploit the ...
Time1mon
CONGO: The Three-Headed State
On a grassy hilltop overlooking the foaming Congo rapids, stolid President Joseph Kasavubu huddled in his modern-design palace and issued laconic statements to the effect that whatever Lumumba ...
BBC2y
The ‘Scramble for Africa’
In addition to the continent being divided up amongst European countries, King Leopold II was given the Congo Free State as his own personal possession. The Congo Free State is now known as the ...
BBC4y
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 ...