(1890) George Washington Williams’s Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo

(1890) George Washington Williams’s Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo

1 Jan 1890

Letter from George Washington Williams, an American historian, clergyman, lawyer, lecturer, and soldier, who travelled to the Congo in 1890. He was shocked to see Leopold’s brutal exploitation of the people of the Congo and spent the short remainder of his life publicizing the outrages that were being perpetrated there.
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