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In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led
British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly
welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set
up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of
forced labour, a programme that reduced the population of Congo by
half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this
definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes
the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the
appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an
extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts
is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of
colonial exploitation.
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