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King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

A colorful, provocative study of King Leopold II of Belgium's genocidal plunder of the Congo in the 1880s, as the European powers were colonizing Africa, reveals the heroic efforts that led to the first international human rights movement.

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This book concerned Belgian colonization of the Congo, which was described as a very nasty business that led to a population decrease of some 10 million people, and it was almost completely omitted from Belgian history books.

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one of my books, King Leopold's Ghost was about Belgian colonization of the Congo, which was a very nasty business which led to a decrease in that population's territory of some 10 million people. And...

— Episode: Adam Hochschild: American Midnight

Episode: Adam Hochschild: American Midnight

This book concerned Belgian colonization of the Congo, which was described as a very nasty business that led to a population decrease of some 10 million people, and it was almost completely omitted from Belgian history books.

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one of my books, King Leopold's Ghost was about Belgian colonization of the Congo, which was a very nasty business which led to a decrease in that population's territory of some 10 million people. And this thing was almost completely left out of Belgian history books.

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