Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death 20 years old

This true, astonishing story of what King Leopold II did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. "Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death" describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned the Congo into his private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labour 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. From the mid-1880s and lasting for nearly 40 years, an estimated 10 million Congolese were killed under Leopold's reign. The madness only came to an end thanks to the efforts of British journalist and humanitarian E.D. Morel, who exposed the human rights abuses in Congo and published photographs of the mutilated Congolese.

Credits

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Cast

Name	Character
Nick Fraser He was 56, now 76 years old	as Narrator (voice)
Roger May He was 29, now 49 years old
Elie Lison

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Crew

Name	Department
Nick Fraser as Co-Producer. He was 56 (now 76) years old	Production