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One way Leopold kept the brutality in the Congo hidden was by bribing journalists and US senators.

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Rubber harvesting was hard, dangerous work that involved climbing to the tops of trees where the rubber vines grew.

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Leopold formed the Force Publique, or public force, to watch over the Congolese people and force them into work.

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Officers were ordered to shoot and cut of the hands of any workers that collapsed due to starvation or exhaustion

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The Belgians ruled the Congo from 1885 to 1960 until the Belgian government feared an uprising in their colonies and extracted most of the Congo's valuable resources

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By 1901, the congo was one of the biggest suppliers for rubber.

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The Belgians ruled the congo for 50 years, and treated the Africans with a little more respect.

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In late 1950's Africans started to demand for equal rights and better treatment.

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in 1960 the Belgium government pulled out of the Congo.

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The Belgiums attempted to teach the Afrticans that white men are the dominant race.

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Leopold II was a king of a cmall country and wanted to gain land quickly.

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A man who was truly transformed by all the congolese deaths was a ship captain by the name Joseph.

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Leopolds armies were equipped with modern Belgian made automatic rifles.

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In the beginning, the labour camps were crippling the kings finances.

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A man hired by the king named Henry Stanley fooled the Congo people to give up what they own to Belgian.

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The working congolese were whipped by a specific whip called the chicane when they did not work hard or disobeyed

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Leopold did not believe in free trade

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King Leopold didn't see the Congolese people as human. The only thing that the slaves were good for in his eyes, were to work day and night.

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Many slaves collapsed from starvation, disease, and exhaustion. They would then be whipped or their hands would be cut off.

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The chicot was the name of the whip that they use to use on the slaves. If you got whipped 50 or 100 times you would be dead.

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The Congo became the worst genocide in African history. It was also known as one of the cruelest places on earth.

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Belgium ruled over The Congo for

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Rubber became a new popular demand and the Congo people were forced to harvest it with life taking work

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In 1865, King Leopold gained the throne and three years later sent an advisor to the Congo for him

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In 1879 Stanley helped king Leopold II trick the people of the Congo into giving their land and lives to Belgium

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When Belgium took over the congo, conditions were expected to get better, but instead the slavery that revolved around rubber harvesting was turned to mining.

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Leopold became king of Belgium in 1865.

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Leopold put all of his money in a swiss bank account before giving the congo over to Belgium to ensure financial stability

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Joseph Conrad, transformed by death and brutality he witnessed, wrote "Heart of Darkness."

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Edmund morale (clerk in Liverpool shipping office) became suspicious and quit his job to investigate king Leopolds corrupt regime for a decade.

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Leopold was attracted to the Congo's due to it's abundant, wild growth of rubber.

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Leopold said he was trying to do the humanitarian thing but was only in the Congo for the resourses leading to the corrupt government

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1879, Leopold created a private company, whose mission was to "free" the people from the foreign oppressors.

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Stanley was a professional explorer and he was the one who helped King Leopold take over part of Africa, and later became his agent.

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Leopold handed the Congo over to Belgium because he felt his work was done and rubber was no longer in demand.

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Arab slave traders who were kidnapping native villagers and selling them into slavery.

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Edward Morale investigated king Leopold's regime

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Henry Morton Stanley was the man who discovered the Congo area

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When the rubber workers collapsed from exhaustion, starvation, or disease, the forced public shot them and were order to cut off their hands.

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In 1960, Belgium pulled their influence out of the Congo and left it without a government

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Stanley (Leopold's agent) tricked Congo tribal chiefs into signing treaties that just gave away their land and trading rights to the King. But they didn't know because they couldn't read what the treaties actually said.

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King Leopold believed that a country needed colonies too be worth anything in the world.

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Joseph Conrad wrote "Heart of Darkness"  about the atrocities of the Congo under Belgian rule.

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Leopold invited people into the Congo and made it seem like nothing was happening and everything was good. But this was not the case.

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If the Natives did not meet their quota, they would be whipped to death. And if they collapsed of starvation or exhaustion, they would get their hands cut off.

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American Explorer, Henry Stanley discovered the Congo and brought his stories back.

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King Leopold forced the Natives into rubber harvesting.

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Belgian King Leopold ascended throne in 1865.

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The Congo was one of the few places in the world where rubber grew wild.

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There was over 10 million murders of the Congolese.