The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo

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Of all the Western imperialists and their harsh colonial governments none was as terrifying as King Leopold II of Belgium and none was as brutal as his African colony the so-called Congo Free State. In The King Incorporated Neal Ascherson recounts King Leopolds exploitation of the Congolese -- he enslaved tortured terrorized and eventually killed an estimated 20 million -- and his efforts to conceal these atrocities from the rest of the world.