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The Philanthropist King

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Crimes of Empire · Investigation · 1885–1908

The Philanthropist King

He sold the world a rescue mission — a king ending slavery and civilizing the Congo. Behind the pamphlets was a private country run on hostages, quotas, and baskets of severed hands.

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