King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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At the turn of the century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area's population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold's Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century's first great human rights movement.
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ISBN: 9780358212508
Published Date: March 3, 2020
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Page Count: 379
Size: 7.97" l x 5.27" w x 1.16" h
Category
History & Geography
Subject
Africa