Which of the following best describes the experience of the Belgian colony of the Congo?
A) A private, royal plantation that exploited natural resources and brutally treated the natives.
B) Whole agricultural districts were taken from Africans for the exclusive use of whites.
C) The colony was administered through assimilation and association.
D) The monarch of Belgium allowed Africans to be converted to Catholicism.
E) It was established as a refuge for freed Africans from intercepted slave ships after the slave trade was banned.
A
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