Emily’s Reviews > King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa > Status Update

Each day traders are kidnapping our people- children of this country, sons of our nobles and vassals, even people of our own family… this corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated…it is our wish that this kingdom not be a place for the trade or transport of slaves. - king affonso I p. 13