King Leopold's Ghost is the story of the terror that occurred because of King Leopold's greed and of the affects felt many years after his death. Forced labor, stripping of natural resources were common. This is the story of the transformation of a country from a colony greatly abused and used by the policies of King Leopold II of Belgium. Hochschild writes about the conditions in the Belgian Congo, approximately modern day Zaire, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The subtitle of King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild reads more like an ad for a current spy movie than a history occurring in the Congo in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
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