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Good Afternoon!. NVC Warm-Up: Leopold’s Motives 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.

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Good Afternoon!

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  1. Good Afternoon! • NVC • Warm-Up: Leopold’s Motives • 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

  2. 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?

  3. King Leopold’s rule in the Congo Essential Question: How did the Belgians treat the native Congolese in the Congo Free State?

  4. 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

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

  6. The White Man’s Burden

  7. The White(?) Man’s Burden

  8. 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)

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