Jack Maddox examines Henry Morton Stanley's 1874-1877 trans-Africa expedition that mapped the Congo River but cost 242 lives. We cover Stanley's brutal methods, forgotten porters, and how his geographic triumph enabled Leopold II's atrocities in the Congo Free State.

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