King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
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Hochschild reconstructs King Leopold II's personal plunder of the Congo, where forced rubber extraction killed as many as ten million Africans, and recovers the first modern human rights campaign that exposed it. The book argues that the Congo Free State was a template for twentieth-century mass atrocity, and that the coalition of missionaries, shipping clerks, and journalists who fought it pioneered the tools of transnational activism.
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