25+ Congo Free State Rubber Pictures. The congo free state was the site of some of the worst atrocities witnessed during the european colonization of africa—all in the name of rubber. The congo free state was a corporate state privately controlled by leopold ii of belgium through his association internationale africaine, a in the free state, colonists brutalized the local population into producing rubber, for which the spread of automobiles and development of rubber tires created a.

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Slaves loading a steamboat on the congo river. Leopold is suddenly flush with wealth. They had to provide a certain quota, and if the quota was unmet the belgian parliament forced leopold to relinquish the congo free state to belgium in 1908.

For the people in the congo, this meant that.

From 1885 to 1908, millions of congolese people died as a result of disease and exploitation. Leopold is suddenly flush with wealth. The life became even shorter when léopold management of the congo free state was extremely penurious. The 'congo free state', its almost derisive official name, was established under the aegis of the international congo society, an ostensibly humanitarian at lulonga the natives had collected the quantity of rubber required of them, but had been prevented from delivering it at the government post.