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Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

Behind the Bastards

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Leopold, the King of the Congo

While he's freshly the king of the belgian congo, he's named in british court as a client of a hore house. And they say that he has been paying 800 pounds a month for a steady supply of young women,. Some of whom were ten to 15 years old. That's soin that's what leopold's doing in between administering the congo. While he's doing that, his men the congo are building a system of roads, railways, posts and steamboats meant to allow the rubber making operation to prosper. He claims the intastructure is necessary so that the free states army can fight those dastardly arab slavers.

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