Table of Contents

1. The conception of the Congo state; 2. The first Belgian expeditions; 3. The founding of the state; 4. The Congo and its affluents; 5. The slave trade and its horrors; 6. The earlier campaigns; 7. The operations on the Lomani; 8. The second Brussels Conference and the king's will; 9. The Arab campaign; 10. The later diplomatic arrangement; 11. The extinction of the slave trade; 12. The advance to the Nile; 13. The Congo Public Force; 14. The Batetela mutinies; 15. The state administration; 16. The revenue and the trade of the state; 17. Railways and telegraphs of the Congo; 18. The peoples of the Congo state; 19. The state and its neighbours; 20. Belgium and the Congo; Appendix; Index of subjects.

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This 1898 publication documents the controversial colonial history of the Congo Free State during the reign of King Leopold II.