Berlin, Conference of
Conference 1884–85 of the major European powers (France, Germany, the UK, Belgium, and Portugal) called by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to decide on the colonial partition of Africa.
Also discussed were a neutral Congo Basin with free trade, and an independent Congo Free State; the slave trade was forbidden.
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