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 ...

CLOTH TO RANSOM SLAVES.; Missionary in the Congo Free State Offers to Repay with Interest Advances Made by Americans.

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 ...

How an American school teacher spread God’s love in King Leopold’s Congo. At the turn of the 20th century, the Congo Free State was one of the hardest places to be a human. For several decades ...

UN peacekeepers have set free 34 women believed to have been held as sex slaves by Lendu tribal fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Torture, rape, mutilation, death - the horrors of slavery were all about the money.

The Belgian colonizers transformed Congo into a slave-state for rubber and ivory. The so-called Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo) existed as a private colony of King Leopold II (1835 ...

KINSHASA, Congo — U.N. troops freed dozens of young girls and women used as sex slaves during raids on camps run by ethnic militiamen in northeastern Congo, officials said Wednesday. United ...