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Excerpts from King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

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King Leopold's Ghost describes the Congo in the period just prior to the American Museum Expedition. In 1885, King Leopold II of Belgium took control of the vast Congo Basin and began a process of pacification and exploitation. By the time Leopold ceded the Congo to Belgium in 1908, he had amassed a huge personal fortune at the cost of millions of Congolese lives.

Excerpts From King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. Copyright 1998 by Adam Hochschild.

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