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English: The contract signed by Henry Morton Stanley with slave trader Tippu Tip on behalf of King Leopold II at the British consulate in Zanzibar in 1887. In it, Leopold appoints Tippu Tip as governor of the Congolese district of Stanley Falls.
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Source Johan Op de Beeck, Leopold II: het hele verhaal, page 371. Horizon ISBN:9789463962094
Author Henry Morton Stanley & Hamid bin Mohammed el Moerjebi Tippu Tip, February, 24 1887

Courtesy of Patrick Maselis, owner of the original copy.

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The contract signed by Henry Morton Stanley with slave trader Tippu Tip on behalf of King Leopold II at the British consulate in Zanzibar in 1887.

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