King Leopold’s Ghost
The world has been affected multiple times by a number of different holocausts. In King Leopold’s Ghost: A story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild a holocaust becomes very prominent to a lot of people. This book begins in 1897 when Edmund Dene Morel witnessed the trade of slave labor for goods, like rubber and ivory, between the Free Congo State and Europe. This led Morel to start the first great international rights movement of the twentieth century against the Congo. Morel found this slave trade had a continuing effect on the society. So, he made it his responsibility to make a change in the Congo. First, Morel enlisted support from public figures like Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, …show more content…
Leopold held over half the shares of mediator companies which forced the men of different tribes in the Congo to be slave laborers. King Leopold would threaten the men by holding their families hostage and even killing some members of their family to justify their point of the men not trying to escape. Later, King Leopold made Congo a “Free Congo State” as an effort to becoming a more powerful country. After making the Congo a “Free State”, King Leopold tried to become allies with the United States. Then, he wanted to play Berlin, Germany, and England against each other at a conference in …show more content…
In college, he earned his Bachelor of the Arts degree at Harvard, and he worked on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa. After graduating, Hochschild worked as a civil rights worker in Mississippi. Hochschild had always been into writing ever since he was a kid and was glad to get the opportunity to pursue his writing hobby at Harvard University (Lannan Center of Poets). Hochschild has written many other books: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, and Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Harris). Therefore, Hochschild has written numerous books and has received a number of awards for each one. For instance, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was also listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize
The world has been affected multiple times by a number of different holocausts. In King Leopold’s Ghost: A story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild a holocaust becomes very prominent to a lot of people. This book begins in 1897 when Edmund Dene Morel witnessed the trade of slave labor for goods, like rubber and ivory, between the Free Congo State and Europe. This led Morel to start the first great international rights movement of the twentieth century against the Congo. Morel found this slave trade had a continuing effect on the society. So, he made it his responsibility to make a change in the Congo. First, Morel enlisted support from public figures like Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, …show more content…
Leopold held over half the shares of mediator companies which forced the men of different tribes in the Congo to be slave laborers. King Leopold would threaten the men by holding their families hostage and even killing some members of their family to justify their point of the men not trying to escape. Later, King Leopold made Congo a “Free Congo State” as an effort to becoming a more powerful country. After making the Congo a “Free State”, King Leopold tried to become allies with the United States. Then, he wanted to play Berlin, Germany, and England against each other at a conference in …show more content…
In college, he earned his Bachelor of the Arts degree at Harvard, and he worked on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa. After graduating, Hochschild worked as a civil rights worker in Mississippi. Hochschild had always been into writing ever since he was a kid and was glad to get the opportunity to pursue his writing hobby at Harvard University (Lannan Center of Poets). Hochschild has written many other books: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, and Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Harris). Therefore, Hochschild has written numerous books and has received a number of awards for each one. For instance, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was also listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize