
Part Two: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard
Behind the Bastards
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Leopold's Congo Atrocities
The Congo was definitely the bloodiest of any of the colonies in Africa by a substantial margin, but they all killed a lot of people. Leopold owned a majority of several of the large rubber making corporations in those colonies too. His entire fortune went to Baroness Davon, the prostitute courtesan that he fell in love with and married. After his death, she immediately married Duro, her pimp, and spent the rest of her life living lavishly off the gold made from Pongolese labor.
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