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The Abir Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was a company that exploited natural rubber in the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. The company was founded with British and Belgian capital and was based in Belgium.
In 1898 the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber and Exploration Company, which had been constituted under Belgian law, liquidated and immediately reconstituted itself under the law of the Congo Independent State in order to escape certain Belgian taxes and controls. The new company shortened its name to Abir,
The Abir Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company) exploited natural rubber in the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. The company was founded with British and Belgian capital and was based in Belgium.
20. Juni 2019 · To the south of the Congo River, the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company (ABIR) was granted a concession of 160,000 km 2, whereas to the north of the river, the Société Anversoise de Commerce au Congo ( Anversoise) exploited an area covering the same size (see Fig. 6.1). 34 The Congo Free State possessed half of the share of both ...
- Louise Cardoso de Mello, Louise Cardoso de Mello, Sven Van Melkebeke
- 2019
21. Sept. 2016 · The ABIR Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was the company appointed to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State. ABIR enjoyed a boom through the late 1890s, by selling a kilogram of rubber in Europe for up to 10 fr which had cost them just 1.35 fr.
1. Apr. 2016 · If the anti-Congo campaign led by the C.R.A. is still remembered elsewhere today, in Belgium itself, it had very little impact, and this is for two main reasons: first, while Casement and Morel’s campaign was a pressurizing factor in Great Britain, it was much less so in Belgium.
The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the Year of Grace 1906. Morel was the first to put a figure to the loss of human life in the Congo, which he arbitrarily estimat-ed at between 100,000 and 500,000 a year.
