King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

The Congo today is still probably the least stable state in Africa, or at least one of them. The Victorian age is a bleak-ass period. Maybe she did poison him. I hope so. He just wants the pot. Like that. It continues to this day. Leopold's profits are roughly a billion dollars in modern currency. That's bonkers. And he had to pay all these journalists and like, yeah, there you go fucking capitalists. A billion dollars in today's money is what he got for killing 10 to 15 million people and destroying Central Africa. Jesus.