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17 de out. de 2022 · King Leopold's soliloquy : a defense of his Congo rule by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Publication date 1905 Topics Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909
Appears in 6 books from 1905-1969. Page 47 - the native must go one or two days' march every fortnight, until he arrives at that part of the forest where the rubber vines can be met with in a certain degree of abundance. There the collector passes a . Appears in 6 books from 1905-2001. Page 21 - It is true, you have killed men.'.
King Leopold's soliloquy : a defence of his Congo rule. Mark Twain. History, Political Science. 1907. 29. PDF. "Leopold II is the absolute Master of the whole of the internal and external activity of the Independent State of the Congo. The organization of justice, the army, the industrial and commercial regimes are established freely by himself.
They think it irregular. They go shuddering around, brooding over the reduction of that Congo population from 25,000,000 to 15,000,000 in the twenty years of my administration; then they burst out and call me the King with Ten Million Murders on his Soul. They call me a 'record'. - From King Leopold's Soliloquy.
6 de out. de 2015 · King Leopold's soliloquy;a defense of his Congo rule by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Publication date 1905 Topics Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909 ...
Description. In Mark Twain’s satire, a raving King Leopold of Belgium launches an impassioned defense of his gruesome policies in Africa, claiming his divine right to brutalize the Congolese people. A scathing condemnation of imperialism and the violence that it incites, Twain’s words retain all of their vitriol over a century later.
22 de dez. de 2020 · King Leopold's Soliloquy-A Defense of his Congo Rule (1905), by Mark Twain is an imaginary speech by King Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909), in which Leopold defends himself against the critics of his reign of the Congo Free State (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo.) During Leopold's reign of plunder, he extracted ivory and rubber from ...
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