Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard
Behind the Bastards
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The Congo Free State
King leopold had the right to collect taxes in the form of labor. He used these taxes to make congolee's people go harvest rubber for him. In theory, i think he was allowed to only demand like forty hours a month from them or something. But what happened is that he would have his soldiers go from village to village and take hostages. These hostages would be put in concentration camps where they'd be starved and beaten until their village met its rubber quota.
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