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"Feelings of humanity and commiseration erupt on their own when we deliberate with our feet in the blood."

— Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90

January 1, 1970

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The Anti-Slavery Conference and the Relaxing Relationship with Leopold II Lambermont in his opening speech to the Antislavery Conference, WILLEQUET, J. Le baron Lambermont, 97.

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The Anti-Slavery Conference and the Relaxing Relationship with Leopold II Lambermont in his opening speech to the Antislavery Conference, WILLEQUET, J. Le baron Lambermont, 97.