Ramtin Arablui
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 27 Aug
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The modern international economy was in its infancy.
But there was a fundamental imbalance, a contradiction.
Many of the countries in what we now call the West, England, France, the United States, etc., didn't always have the natural resources, the raw materials to fuel their economies.
Those resources were in faraway places, in South Asia, in Latin America, and...
in Africa.
Belgium.
King Leopold II of Belgium was one of the youngest rulers of one of the youngest countries in Europe in the 1800s.
And he came to power right at the start of Europe's colonization of Africa.
He was brash and ambitious and believed an African colony could bring him more legitimacy and wealth.
So he sent explorers to find him a territory.
He called it Congo Free State.
Congo Free State.
And he owned it.
He referred to himself as its proprietor.
It was a massive colony filled with dense forests, plains, plateaus, and rivers.
A beautiful land with a diverse population.
More than 70
These are from the writings of a Black American missionary named William Henry Shepard, one of the many missionaries welcomed by King Leopold to Congo Free State.
This is Ramona Austin.
She's an art historian who wrote about William Henry Shepard in an article called An Extraordinary Generation.
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