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19 de abr. de 2024 · Belgium’s King Leopold II: The Man Responsible For The Death Of 15 Million People In The Congo. Leopold II reigned as King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and established the Congo Free State in order to seize vast quantities of ivory and rubber.
30 de abr. de 2024 · The purpose of this video is to educate audiences on King Leopold II's cruel governance and his mistreatment of the Congo Free State in the 19th and 20th century. The film exposes the great misery that Leopold's actions brought about, including genocide, slave labor, and other atrocities that claimed Congolese lives.
Hace 3 días · In the 1998 book of popular history King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild presents a horrific picture of the African Congo under the...
26 de abr. de 2024 · For me, that title was Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, which recounts the history of Belgium’s brutal colonial rule over the Congo and how an early-20th-century human-rights...
30 de abr. de 2024 · In 1998, the American historian Adam Hochschild, building on decades of Belgian scholarship, published ‘King Leopold’s Ghost’, a devastating account of Leopold’s private empire. It became an international bestseller.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Ultimately slashing the area's population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent , King Leopold's Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions.
4 de may. de 2024 · Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
