The story about the book king Leopold’s ghost is a book describing the modern history of the Congo which is a story of brutality, greed and death all caused by King Leopold. The story of King Leopold was widely discussed around the world due to the events that happened to the people of Belgium during his reign. King Leopold’s Ghost describes a lot of events, beginning with the effort made by King Leopold make a colonial claim for the Congo and the inhabitants. One of the main topics described is New Imperialism, which is a period where colonies expanded. King Leopold’s Rule has two phases, the beginning of his rule which is the heroic part in which all his taught was to make the Congo a colony of its own and also the greed which led him
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Adam Hochschild also covered the story of the Congo from the greed of the leader i.e. King Leopold, to the way the people of Congo were terrorized by the soldiers King Leopold hired who were meant to protect the people of the Congo from the Afro-Arab slave traders and also to the amount of people that demonstrated heroism in the Congo to bring an end to slavery and King Leopold’s reign of terror to the people of the …show more content…
During the government of King Leopold, New Imperialism occurred when King Leopold II was looking for colony that Belgium could occupy overseas, King Leopold wanted to make the Congo a modernized colony like Europe’s most modernized colonies like The Dutch, Spain, French and Britain, who were colonizing and taking control over top colonies all around the world which in turn gives them more power and makes them richer. In King Leopold’s attempt of making Congo a bigger colony, according to Adam Hochschild, “He kept looking for land to buy. He studied ways to make money and acquire land. He visited the British colonies and read a treatise on how to manage a colony. The coffee, sugar, and tobacco plantations of Java had paid for railroads and canals in Holland, and he envisioned the same for Belgium. Also, King Leopold invested in the Suez Canal Company, looked at land and railways in Argentina, Brazil, Fiji, and
Adam Hochschild also covered the story of the Congo from the greed of the leader i.e. King Leopold, to the way the people of Congo were terrorized by the soldiers King Leopold hired who were meant to protect the people of the Congo from the Afro-Arab slave traders and also to the amount of people that demonstrated heroism in the Congo to bring an end to slavery and King Leopold’s reign of terror to the people of the …show more content…
During the government of King Leopold, New Imperialism occurred when King Leopold II was looking for colony that Belgium could occupy overseas, King Leopold wanted to make the Congo a modernized colony like Europe’s most modernized colonies like The Dutch, Spain, French and Britain, who were colonizing and taking control over top colonies all around the world which in turn gives them more power and makes them richer. In King Leopold’s attempt of making Congo a bigger colony, according to Adam Hochschild, “He kept looking for land to buy. He studied ways to make money and acquire land. He visited the British colonies and read a treatise on how to manage a colony. The coffee, sugar, and tobacco plantations of Java had paid for railroads and canals in Holland, and he envisioned the same for Belgium. Also, King Leopold invested in the Suez Canal Company, looked at land and railways in Argentina, Brazil, Fiji, and