King Leopold's ghost

“I really recommend reading King Leopold's ghost by Adam hosch child it's a great book and it really delves into the human misery caused by this regime”

“And so one of the more I mean there's so many [ __ ] up things about this and I I really recommend reading King Leopold's Ghost uh by Adam Hoschild. It's a great book and it really delves into the human misery caused by this regime.”

“And then the other book is a book called King Leupold's Ghost by Adam Hosshild, which uh takes the stance that Leopold was one of history's great monsters.”

“In King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hoshchild describes uh Leopold's childhood as being kind of stark and cold. Uh quote, "If Leopold wanted to see his father, he had to apply for an audience.”

“Uh in King Leopold's ghost, Adam Hoschild writes that Liupold directly told his aids, quote, "Care must be taken not to let it be obvious that the Association of the Congo and the African Association are two different things.”

“Uh here's a quote from Hoschild's book. The very word treaty is a euphemism for many chiefs had no idea what they were signing.”

“Uh here's a quote from a description of one of Stanley's expeditions in Kings Leopold's Ghost. to those unfortunate enough to live in its path.”

“Adam Hoschild in King Leopold's ghost compares the Congo Free State to a venture capital firm. Right. Quote, he had essentially found a way to attract other people's capital to his investment schemes while he retained half the proceeds.”

“Uh, this quote is from uh, King Leopold's ghost. When the last daughter Clementine was born, according to his sister Louise, the king was furious and thenforth refused to have anything to do with his admirable wife.”

“one of my sources is King Leopold's Ghost, which is a really big a really good book by Adam Hoschild.”

“So I read Gil's book and I also went through um King Leopold's ghost again and I did a bunch of other research and we're going to have a fun time here.”

“In King Leupold's ghost, Hoschild writes, It was as if through his handwriting, he were trying to pull himself out of disgrace and turn the script of his life from one of poverty to one of elegance, which I think is probably a pretty accurate description.”

“Hashile's book relates one six-week campaign in the Congo that killed quote over 900 natives, men, women, and children in order to add 20 tons of rubber a month to one region's productivity.”

“And so one of the more I mean there's so many [ __ ] up things about this and I I really recommend reading King Leopold's Ghost uh by Adam Hoschild. It's a great book and it really delves into the human misery caused by this regime.”

“Um the book King Leupold's ghost makes a big deal out of the Chot. And it's probably true that the Belgians under Leopold whipped more people to death than any other regime in history.”

“Well, and there are, and this is again a thing that Leopold's Ghost does a good job of going into. There are the the heroes in this story.”

“And then the other book is a book called King Leupold's Ghost by Adam Hosshild, which uh takes the stance that Leopold was one of history's great monsters. Anyway, so these are these are most of what I come from is sort of the contrasting views that these two books present.”

“In King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hashild describes uh Leopold's childhood as being kind of stark and cold. Uh quote, "If Leupold wanted to see his father, he had to apply for an audience. When the father had something to tell the son, he communicated it through one of his secretaries."”

“He meets with these guys and he gets them to sign treaties giving up their rights to the land. Uh here's a quote from Hoschild's book. The very word treaty is a euphemism for many chiefs had no idea what they were signing. Few had ever seen the written word before and they were being asked to mark their exes”

“Uh here's a quote from a description of one of Stanley's expeditions in Kings Leopold's Ghost. To those unfortunate enough to live in its path, the expedition felt like an invading army, for it sometimes held women and children hostage until local chiefs supplied food. Um, so yeah, he he's shooting his way through these tribes, taking their food, taking”

“Other people paid for the right to mine rubber and cut off hands and do all the actual work and Leopold owned the rights to a huge chunk of their profits. So basically these companies would come in and give him an owning stake in the corporation. They would license the scheme of uh enslaving people, cutting off their hands,”

“i read a really good but super depressing book called king leopold's ghost which is about colonialism in the congo”

“King Leopold's go talks about how that was the African Holocaust and basically that Congo had 20 million in population but 8 to 10 million people were killed throughout the belgians coming and colonizing uh the Congo”

“and there's a book called King Leopold's Ghost and the guy had a big old beard kind of like I have in one of those pictures uh with with sangi um but uh but what what they say is that it's an estimated 10 million people half the population of Congo that that he was responsible for killing and murdering”

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