01861cam a22003373u 4500 62739 UtSlPG 20260610134439.0 m cr n 260607r2020||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 05032801 UtSlPG en iso639-1 DT PS Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2020 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Leopold%27s_Soliloquy Release date is 2020-07-23 Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule" by Mark Twain is a political satire pamphlet published in 1905. The work presents a fictional monologue in which King Leopold II of Belgium defends his brutal rule over the Congo Free State. Through biting irony, Leopold justifies atrocities—including massacres, starvation, and village extermination—by claiming Christian piety and divine right. He dismisses critical reports from missionaries and consuls as lies, insisting he brought only religion and civilization to Congo while taking nothing for himself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Congo (Democratic Republic) Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62739 103563 103563