King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror and heroism in colonial Africa
Hochschild, Adam2019
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When Edmund Morel realised that Belgium's colony the Congo was exploiting slave labour, he quit his job and single-handedly made the Congo's slave labour regime and the millions of lives it took into a cause which would unite the whole world.
Main title:
King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror and heroism in colonial Africa / Adam Hochschild ; introduction by Barbara Kingsolver.
Author:
Hochschild, Adam, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
400 pages ; 20 cm
Awards:
1999 Duff Cooper Prize
ISBN:
9781509882205 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
967.51022
Language:
English
Subject:
Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene), 1873-1924Slave labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th centuryAntislavery movements -- HistoryCongo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1885-1908Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relationsHistory
BRN:
1138096
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