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White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Documentary about 19th century King Leopold II of Belgium, who presided over the most oppressive form of colonisation Africa has ever known.
Documentary about 19th century King Leopold II of Belgium, who personally owned one million square miles of Central Africa - the Congo Free State, which suffered the most oppressive form of colonisation Africa has ever known. As many as 10 million Africans died in his quest for wealth as Leopold turned an area 80 times the size of Belgium into a vast, highly profitable labour camp harvesting wild rubber for a new, industrial rubber-hungry world.
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Wed 4 Apr 2007
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