Picture No | 10071576 |
Date | 1906 |
Description | Cartoon, In the Rubber Coils (King Leopold II) |
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Cartoon, In the Rubber Coils - King Leopold II, King of the Belgians, crushes the Belgian Congo, in a reference to Leopold's exploitation of the Congo Free State, extorting forced labour from the native people to harvest rubber for trade.
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Source | Cartoon by Linley Sambourne in 'Punch', 28 November 1906, page 389 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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