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. Share full article. Oct. 10, 1897.

The so-called Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo) existed as a private colony of King Leopold II (1835-1909) until the Belgian government took over in 1908. Belgian rule killed an ...

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 ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the Congo Free State was one of the hardest places to be a human. For several decades, Belgian soldiers and business owners brutalized thousands of Congolese locals.

In 1889-1890, the signatories of the Berlin Act met at the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference, where they abandoned free trade and allowed the Congo Free State to impose customs duties, supposedly ...