We prefer to remain poor and free to being rich slaves.” Pointed Question. The Congo will indeed be poor unless it can keep Union Minière’s mines, which produce more than 6% of the world’s ...

but by 1550 there was no slave trade in Benin. Pepper and elephant tusks became the main exports. Afonso I, King of the Congo similarly saw the slave trade rapidly grow out of control to the ...

That group is a group funded by the metals industry, that certifies materials leaving Congo and other conflict zones as free of slave labor, and from official sources. The complaint in France ...