King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Hochschild exposes the horrifying scale of violence inflicted on the Congo under Belgian King Leopold II's personal colonial rule, where forced rubber extraction quotas backed by mutilation and mass killing may have caused the deaths of up to ten million Congolese people, a genocide largely erased from mainstream Western historical memory.

The book also traces the early international human rights campaign that eventually exposed Leopold's atrocities to the world, giving genuine credit to the journalists, missionaries and activists who fought to bring the Congo's suffering to global attention against determined official denial.

A landmark work of history, restoring a largely forgotten colonial atrocity to public memory.

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