King Leopold's Ghost: A story of greed, terror and heroism by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost: A story of greed, terror and heroism

Adam Hochschild

461 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
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In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships ...

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