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100 1 _aTwain, Mark,
_d1835-1910
245 1 0 _aKing Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Leopold%27s_Soliloquy
500 _aRelease date is 2020-07-23
508 _aProduced 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aCongo (Democratic Republic)
653 _aLéopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62739
999 _c103563
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