King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa
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London : Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2005.
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Book
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Updated edition.
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376 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
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"In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a young British shipping company official working in Antwerp, began to notice something that made him suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, the new colony that the Belgian king, Leopold II, had just carved out for himself, they were filled with immensely valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa, they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is, except soldiers, military supplies and firearms. Horrified, Morel realized that there could be only one source for the lucrative cargo: slave labor on a vast scale. He abandoned his job and swiftly became the greatest investigative journalist of his time. A man of torrential energy and conviction, Morel almost single-handedly made the Congo's slave-labor regime, and the millions of lives it took, into a cause that would unite the whole world"--
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967.5102 HOC
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LC Subjects
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1885-1908.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century.
Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century.
Human rights movements -- History -- 19th century.
Human rights movements -- History -- 20th century.
Morel, E. D. -- (Edmund Dene), -- 1873-1924.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century.
Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century.
Human rights movements -- History -- 19th century.
Human rights movements -- History -- 20th century.
Morel, E. D. -- (Edmund Dene), -- 1873-1924.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781447235514, 1447235517
Notes
General Note
First published 1998 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-360) and index.
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"In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a young British shipping company official working in Antwerp, began to notice something that made him suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, the new colony that the Belgian king, Leopold II, had just carved out for himself, they were filled with immensely valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa, they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is, except soldiers, military supplies and firearms. Horrified, Morel realized that there could be only one source for the lucrative cargo: slave labor on a vast scale. He abandoned his job and swiftly became the greatest investigative journalist of his time. A man of torrential energy and conviction, Morel almost single-handedly made the Congo's slave-labor regime, and the millions of lives it took, into a cause that would unite the whole world"--,Back cover.
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Hochschild, A. (2005). King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa. Updated edition. Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hochschild, Adam. 2005. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2005.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Updated edition. Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2005.
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