
Part Two: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard
Behind the Bastards
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Leopold II, King of Belgium, Part Two
In 1890, a black journalist named George Washington Williams wrote an open letter to King Leopold II. He was the only person up to that point who actually sat down with African people and asked them what was going on in the Congo. Seven or eight years later, another amateur journalist named Morrell stumbles upon the conspiracy. And basically he starts a newspaper that is focused entirely on exposingKing Leopold's crimes.
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