- — Africa:
The rubber regime and the Force Publique
Monopoly decrees and rubber quotas, enforced by the Force Publique through hostage-taking and mutilation, drive a system of forced labour and mass death.
Era: The Congo Free State
Sources: Congo Free State · Wikipedia, Congo Free State (1885–1908) · BlackPast.org
Catastrophe in the 1890s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1890s, tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 1
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 1891
- Latest
- 1891
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.