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king leopold's ghost

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American History

 

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Joseph W

 

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September 25, 2013

 

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King Leopold personally benefited from this exploitation of the peoples and the environment. He managed to do so without raising concerns about the illegalities or moralities of his time. To this day much of what is in this book has been ignored by history. Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa King Leopold's Ghost?A story of greed, terror and heroism in colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Book review by Stuart Nolan Adam Hochschild's study of King Leopold II of Belgium's creation of the Congo Free State goes to the essence of the economic and political systems established in colonial Africa...
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When reading a reference by Mark Twain to these deaths, and the world-wide campaign against slavery in the Congo of which he was a part, Hochschild was surprised at his own ignorance. "Why were these deaths not mentioned in the standard litany of our century's horrors? And why had I not heard of them?" Pursuing his inquiries he uncovered a "vast supply of raw material"...
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