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... One of the first European leaders to acquire new African territory was King Leopold II of Belgium, who had long dreamed of creating an empire modeled on Dutch holdings in Asia and the Pacific. ...
In the story of King Leopold’s Ghost, written by Adam Hocheschild, King Leopold II of Belgiums creation of the Congo Free State went into the interior of the economic and political systems established in colonial Africa. Between 1885 and 1908, there were approximately between five and eight million victims of Leopolds personal rule, under a barbarous system of forced labor and systematic terror (his idea of humanitarianism). Both Rudyard Kipling and King Leopold believed imperialism equaled the rights of success for a nation.
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