King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Adam Hochschild
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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 were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and firearms.
Correctly concluding that only slave labor on a vast scale could account for these cargoes, Morel resigned from his company and almost singlehandedly made Leopold’s slave-labor regime the premier human rights story in the world. Thousands of people packed hundreds of meetings throughout the United States and Europe to learn about Congo atrocities. Two courageous black Americans - George Washington Williams and William Sheppard - risked much to bring evidence to the outside world. Roger Casement, later hanged by Britain as a traitor, conducted an eye-opening investigation of the Congo River stations.
Sailing into the middle of the story was a young steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming over all was Leopold II, King of the Belgians, sole owner of the only private colony in the world.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
September 20th, 2018
Thank you for this!
September 20th, 2018
Awesome! Thank you for uploading this.
September 20th, 2018
Roger Casement = Patriotic freedom fighter and Truth Teller.
Thanks, doorman!
September 21st, 2018
The book is full of lies. It’s not possible that the Congo even had a pouplation of 10 million (the number Hochschild claimed were killed) at the time, and the atrocities were committed by native Africans (and had been before Europeans arrived), more often when they weren’t under European supervision.
https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/07/24/mythologies-about-leopolds-congo-free-state/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mjGXDlSk0c
June 28th, 2024
Thank you.
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