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Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death salami Echoes of the Darkland isThis true, shocking, astonishing story of what the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes Leopold II, King of the Belgiums private colony of the Congo between 1885 and 1908 as a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber. Families were held