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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Reprint Edition) by Adam Hochschild Paperback, 366 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-618-00190-5 / 0618001905 ISBN-13: 978-0-618-00190-3 / 9780618001903 In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold Ii of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its p |