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King Leopold's ghost

by Adam Hochschild

1998 366 pages eng ★ 3.6 (7 ratings)

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, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its p…

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