on. Instead, the Congo was divided up into partitions with each having as its owner a privately held company. These companies enthusiastically exploited the people and land in an effort to profit from mining and free plantation labor. Rubbery, ivory and other highly sought commercial products from the Congo were extracted from the land and people via state policies that relied upon terror and brutality to increase productivity. Slave labor, at-will executions, rape, and other forms of brutality were visited on the Congo natives. Such purposeful and systematic destruction visited upon the lands and people of the Congo would leave permanent psychological and physical scars. In his book Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon explains that such complete domination of one culture by another causes a loss of identity and feelings of inferiority in those oppressed by coloni
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