Good Afternoon!

1. NVC

2. Warm-Up: Leopold’s Motives

3. Congo Free State: the Heart of Darkness

Essential Question: How did the Belgians treat the native Congolese in the Congo Free State?Homework: Complete Congo Writing Prompt

Leopold’s Congo

• Which letter do you trust most (Doc A or B)? Based on this, how do you think the Belgians will treat the Congolese?

King Leopold’s rule in the Congo

Essential Question: How did the Belgians treat the native Congolese in the Congo Free State?

Legacy of a Forgotten Holocaust• 1904 Casement Report

– 1908, under pressure from Europe and US, Leopold gives up Congo

• 10 million Congolese killed in the brutality

• New race for colonies in Africa between France, Britain, Italy, Portugal, and Spain

• UN commission named the Congo the least developed nation in the world this year– Genocide and mutilation remain

in Africa to this very day

Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost,

Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.

Hear how the demons chuckle and yell

Cutting his hands off, down in Hell

--The Congo, by Vachel Lindsay

The Heart of Darkness

“The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of the human conscience”—Joseph Conrad

The White Man’s Burden

The White(?) Man’s Burden

Congo Prompt

• Prompt: What did Imperialism look like in the Congo?– Re-Write your textbook using the evidence from

the documents!– Thesis should answer BOTH what were Belgian

motives for Imperialism AND how Belgians treated the Congolese

– Use TWO QUOTATIONS from the documents– THREE PARAGRAPHS (Intro, Body, Conclusion)