Book · 1998 · Nonfiction

King Leopold's Ghost

Name: King Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam Hochschild

A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

Mariner Books · 416 pages

★ 5.8 editorial score

A Liverpool shipping clerk noticed ships leaving the Congo loaded with rubber and arriving with only guns and chains. Hochschild pulls that thread into Leopold's private slave state and its millions of dead.

Genre

History

Subject

Colonialism Congo Africa

Setting

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Time

1998

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