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“At first, Africans apparently saw the white sailors not as men but as vumbi—ancestral ghosts—since the Kongo people believed that a person’s skin changed to the color of chalk when he passed into the land of the dead.”
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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