Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

2004 · ⭐ 7 · Votes: 5

This true astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but in reality he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.