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Robinson, James L. “November 15, 1908. Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II.” In Great Events from History, eds. Carl Bankston Pasadena. Calif: Salem Press, 2009.

Rutz, Michael A. King Leopold’s Congo and the “Scramble for Africa” (Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2018.

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