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Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908

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• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History

• The International Beginnings of the Congo Free State (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1894), by Jesse Siddall Reeves
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• King Leopold II: His Rule in Belgium and the Congo (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1905), by John de Courcy MacDonnell
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• The Operations of the Association Internationale Africaine and of the Comité D'Études du Haut Congo, From December 1877, to October 1882, by a Participator in the Enterprise (London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1883)
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• A Report of the Kingdom of Congo, and of the Surrounding Countries, Drawn Out of the Writings and Discourses of the Portuguese, Duarte Lopez (London: J. Murray, 1881), by Duarte Lopes and Filippo Pigafetta, ed. by Margarite Hutchinson
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• The Story of the Congo Free State: Social, Political, and Economic Aspects of the Belgian System of Government in Central Africa (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Henry Wellington Wack (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Belgian Congo and the Berlin Act (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1919), by Arthur Berriedale Keith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished on the Congo for Twenty Years, 1890-1910 (revised edition; Manchester, UK: National Labour Press, 1920), by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (second edition; Boston; P. R. Warren Co., 1905), by Mark Twain (HTML at amnh.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Esboço Histórico do Congo e Loango Nos Tempos Modernos, Contendo uma Resenha dos Costumes e Vocabulario dos Indigenas de Cabinda (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Typ. M. Moreira, 1888), by José Emilio de Santos e Silva
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• The Fall of the Congo Arabs (London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Sidney Langford Hinde (multiple formats at archive.org)
• New Africa: An Essay on Government Civilization in New Countries, and on the Foundation, Organization and Administration of the Congo Free State (London: Sampson Law, Marston and Co., 1903), by Edouard Eugène François Descamps (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Skandinaver i Congo: Svenske, Norske og Danske Mænds og Kvinders Virksomhed i den Uafhængige Congostat (in Danish; Copenhagen: Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1902-1905), by Harald Jenssen-Tusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Preliminary Report on the Atrocities Committed by the Congolese Army Against the White Population of the Population of the Republic of the Congo Before the Intervention of the Belgian Forces (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1960), by L. Merchiers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Congo Rebellion (1964), by Congo (Democratic Republic) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Present State of the Congo Question: Official Correspondence Between the Foreign Office and the Congo Reform Association (1912), contrib. by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Fall of the Congo Arabs (London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Sidney Langford Hinde (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Congo for Christ: The Story of the Congo Mission (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., n.d.), by John Brown Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)