How Did King Leopold Of Belgium Lead To The Failure Of Imperialism

As the world approached the 20th century European countries were in a race against each other. This lead to the trans-Atlantic slave trade however, when the British outlawed the trans-Atlantic slave trade and than slavery outright they turned to imperialism. The European countries endeavours toward the exploration of Africa were failing as they lost their lives in extraordinary numbers to malaria. However in the early 1880’s King Leopold of Belgium acquired a private “country” in Central Africa; he called this private “country” Congo Free State. This private country was 95 times larger than Belgium and he intended to utilize it to earn money. Within the next twenty years Leopold's managers killed as many as 10,000,000 people through forced