Slavery lasted for approximately 246 years from 1619 to 1865. In addition to that, there were 12 years of R econstruction and 91 years of J im Crowism (legalized discrimination). It is estimated that ...

Slaves, victims of this fighting ... In a move supposed to end the brutality, Belgium eventually annexed the Congo outright, but the problems in its former colony remained. Mining boomed, workers ...

for the repression of the African slave trade, and also a convention of commerce and navigation between the United States and Independent State of Congo, signed at Brussels July 24, 1891.

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

Once slaves were captured throughout ... perpetuated by King Leopold II of Belgium. He declared himself to be the sole proprietor of the African Congo which was a land mass about 900,000 square ...

but by 1550 there was no slave trade in Benin. Pepper and elephant tusks became the main exports. Afonso I, King of the Congo similarly saw the slave trade rapidly grow out of control to the ...