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King Leopold's Soliloquy is a 1905 pamphlet by American author Mark Twain. [1] Its subject is King Leopold 's rule over the Congo Free State. A work of political satire harshly condemnatory of his actions, it ostensibly recounts a fictional monologue of Leopold II speaking in his own defense.
- Mark Twain
- 1905
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The train of revilers of missionary testimony, whose roseate pictures of conditions under the king's rule have beguiled the uninformed, hurries out at the wings and Leopold is left to hold the stage, with the skeleton that refuses longer to stay hidden in his Congo closet. One thing the report omits to do.
Si tratta di una traduzione del testo di Mark Twain "King Leopold's Soliloquy. A Defense of his Congo Rule" (1905). Sollecitato dalla Congo Reform Association, un'associazione umanitaria e filantropica, Mark Twain (1835-1910) prese la penna per perorare la causa delle vittime, dei colonizzati.
KING LEOPOLD'S SOLILOQUY the Powers in tears, with my mouth full of Bible and my pelt oozing piety at every pore, and im- plored them to place the vast and rich and pop- ulous Congo Free State in trust in my hands as their agent, so that I might root out slavery and stop the slave raids, and lift up those twenty-five millions of gentle and harmless blacks out of darkness into light, the light ...
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