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Adam Hochschild details how King Leopold II seized the Congo Basin in the 1880s, extracting vast amounts of rubber while subjecting the local population to forced labor, brutality, and a population decline of millions. The book chronicles the mounting opposition—elevated by figures such as British shipping agent Edmund Morel, Irish activist Roger Casement, and African-American journalists George Washington Williams and William Sheppard—whose efforts helped bring the Congo atrocities to international attention and set the stage for a new era of human rights advocacy.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Adam Hochschild
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