Aired: Mar 21, 2007 The series begins by assessing the implications of the relationship between E...
Racism: A History
Season 1 Episode 3: A Savage Legacy
The third and final episode examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century. By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa. Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation. Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century's greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonia...
