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"Time to chop off some Congolese hands for not meeting their rubber quota!" 19th Century History 20th Century History (media.piefed.social)
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"Time to chop off some Congolese hands for not meeting their rubber quota!"
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

We even had human zoos in Brussels. With black people from the Congo in cages depicting what life was there.

We did some horrific things in our past.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    There was one account from "King Leopold's ghost" where a Congo chief was asked to either go live in a Brussels zoo and travel the world as a spectacle or his village would be wiped out.

    He chose to he a zoo animal and when his tour ended, the village was wiped out.

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