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This story is set in 1890 in a village in the Congo region that was taken over by King Leopold II of Belgium. The narrator, Hovy, goes into the forest each day to find food for their family since most men in the village, including their father, are forced to work collecting rubber sap for the Belgians under brutal conditions. Hovy witnesses the Force Publique, the colonial army, shoot and cut off the hand of an elderly rubber tapper who was not meeting quotas. Fear spreads in the village as more violence oc

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