Congo Rubber Trade

Other names for this vine are eta the white rubber vine and the congo rubber plant.

Congo rubber trade. Profits from rubber sales surpassed those of ivory on the antwerp exchange netting 6 9 million francs. By 1896 it exported ten times as much 1 317 346 kilos enough to be the biggest rubber producer in africa. These forced the natives to deliver all ivory and rubber harvested or found to state officers thus nearly completing leopold s monopoly of the ivory and rubber trade. During the 1890s the fp s primary role was to exploit the natives as corvée laborers to promote the rubber trade.

In 1890 the year conrad traveled in congo the state exported a modest 133 666 kilograms of rubber. In addition leopold had been actually encouraging the slave trade among arabs in the upper congo in return for slaves to fill the ranks of the fp. Congo free state french état indépendant du congo former state in africa that occupied almost all of the congo river basin coextensive with the modern democratic republic of the congo it was created in the 1880s as the private holding of a group of european investors headed by leopold ii king of the belgians the king s attention was drawn to the region during henry later sir henry. Landolphia owariensis is a species of liana from the family apocynaceae found in tropical africa latex can be extracted from this plant for the manufacture of natural rubber.