The Congo Free State

For the first time the history of the Congo Free State (CFS) is presented on the basis of documents from direct eyewitnesses of the time. Nothing escapes the critical gaze of the author's international relations expert: studies of local populations and tribal rites, polemics on cut hands and human rights, jealousies of other European countries, constant media distortions. Some unpublished documents in their original English form have been integrated in this update of the first french version.