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===Recognition by the United states===

===Recognition by the United states===

The United States was the first country to recognize the Congo free state in 1884, as it went trough a civil war recently concerning the abolishion of slavery, and so as American diplomats describe it the time, the United States had a special duty towards the negro race, they already had set up the Liberia colony in West Africa as a safe heaven for returning emancipated Black Afro-American slaves and also as a refuge for slaves who were captured from illegal slavers after 1861 by American military vessels patrolling mostly the Gold Coast of Africa and the mouth of the Congo stream, which were the main source for black slaves in the transatlantic slave trade, as it was unpractical and cruel to send the slaves back to the places where they were first enslaved, this same idea of creating a free heaven was initially also the idea behind the Congo free State, therefore 6 months before the Berlin conference and after various positive reports from American diplomats to the United States Congress in 1884, the United States recognized the Congo free state, 6 months before the Berlin conference, further diplomatic maneuvering among European nations with a great help of the United States resulted in the recognition of the Congo free state of 1884–1885, at which Leopold was recognized as sovereign of most of the area to which he and Stanley had laid claim. On 5 February 1885, the Congo Free State, an area 80 times larger than Belgium, was established under Leopold II's sovereign rule. It was however not his private property or colony as the Liberal media and academics claim, he was merely the head of state.

The United States was the first country to recognize the Congo free state in 1884, as it went trough a civil war recently concerning the abolishion of slavery, and so as American diplomats describe it at the time, the United States had a special duty towards the negro race, they already had set up the Liberia colony in West Africa as a safe heaven for returning emancipated Black Afro-American slaves and also as a refuge for slaves who were captured from illegal slavers after 1861 by American military vessels patrolling mostly the Gold Coast of Africa and the mouth of the Congo stream, which were the main source for black slaves in the transatlantic slave trade, as it was unpractical and cruel to send the slaves back to the places where they were first enslaved, this same idea of creating a free heaven was initially also the idea behind the Congo free State, therefore 6 months before the Berlin conference and after various positive reports from American diplomats to the United States Congress in 1884, the United States recognized the Congo free state, 6 months before the Berlin conference, further diplomatic maneuvering among European nations with a great help of the United States resulted in the recognition of the Congo free state of 1884–1885, at which Leopold was recognized as sovereign of most of the area to which he and Stanley had laid claim. On 5 February 1885, the Congo Free State, an area 80 times larger than Belgium, was established under Leopold II's sovereign rule. It was however not his private property or colony as the Liberal media and academics claim, he was merely the head of state.

===Critisism of the Congo Free State===

===Critisism of the Congo Free State===