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Book Review of King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild

What some have considered to be the first international scandal of

the modern era took place in the Congo from 1890 until 1910. King Leopold

II of Belgium was at the head of this so-called scandal. Although Europe

and the rest of the world seemed to have forgotten the victims of these

crimes, there is a considerable amount of material to use when attempting to

recreate the horror that took place in Leopold's Congo. This is exactly

what Adam Hochschild is attempting to do by writing this book. By using the

written words of mostly Europeans and Americans, which creates a distorted

view of history, he wants to show that the Holocaust type event that took

place in the Congo is something that should never be forgotten in our

history. Hochschild also wants to show the heroism that took place

afterwards in what became the first human rights movement of our time.

Hochschild does an......

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