'Masterful.' - The Economist The Congo-Ocean railroad stands as one
of the deadliest construction projects in history. It was completed
in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony. African
workers were conscripted at gunpoint, separated from their families
and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way
through dense tropical foliage; excavated by hand thousands of
tonnes of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way
through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building
bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they
suffered disease, malnutrition and rampant physical abuse, likely
resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. Drawing on exhaustive research
in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record and
eye-opening photographic evidence, J. P. Daughton tells the epic
story of the Congo-Ocean railroad, and in doing so reveals the
human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
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