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Leopold II of the Belgians: King of colonialism by Barbara Emerson
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“He had to raise huge sums of money in a short period of time. He had already spent about ten million of his personal fortune on his African ventures. [...] It was utopian, however, to imagine that a single person, no matter how wealthy, could bear all the financial burdens.”
― Barbara Emerson, Leopold II of the Belgians: King of colonialism

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