Leopard Society

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Leopard Society, leopard men, and human leopards were names used for actual or suspected secret societies that operated in West and Central Africa from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Such societies existed in several African regions and were generally independent of each other. The possibly earliest reference to one of them in Western literature can be found in George Banbury's Sierra Leone, or the White Man's Grave (1888). In Western culture, depictions of such societies have been used to portray Africans as barbaric and uncivilized.

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