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“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

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“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves themselves, and sold their students and converts into slavery. The priests who strayed from the fold stuck to their faith in one way, however; after the Reformation they tried to ensure that none of their human goods ended…

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“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,…

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Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of…

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“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or…

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