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by Adam Hochschild
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An edition of King Leopold's ghost (1998) a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's ghost
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.
Publish Date
1998
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
366
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Politics and government, Race relations, Forced labor, Human rights movements, Indigenous peoples, History, Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century, Genocide, Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century, Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century, Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century, Human rights movements -- History -- 19th century, Human rights movements -- History -- 20th century, Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1885-1908, Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government, Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century, Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century, Antislavery movements, Africa, race relations, Congo (democratic republic), history, Congo (democratic republic), politics and government, Indigenous peoples, africa, west, Congo (democratic republic), social conditions, Human rights, congo (democratic republic), New York Times reviewed, Colonialism, Politics, Human Rights, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Travail forcé, Histoire, Autochtones, Mouvements des droits de l'homme, Politique et gouvernement, Relations raciales, General, Kolonialismus, Ethnische Beziehungen, Zwangsarbeit, Koloniale periode, Uitbuiting, Gruweldaden
Places
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Times
20th century, 19th century, 1885-1908
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa April 2006, Mariner Books in English 0618711678 9780618711673 | zzzz
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Schatten über dem Kongo: Die Geschichte eines der großen, fast vergessenen Menschheitsverbrechen 2001, Klett-Cotta Hardcover in German - 6. Auflage 3608919732 9783608919738 | zzzz
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-350) and index.
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