King Leopolds Ghost by Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild

King Leopolds Ghost

Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild

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dark reflective slow-paced
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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...

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