King Leopold's Ghost

Chapter Overview

• Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation

• Chapter 2: From first contact onward, Europeans viewed central Africa chiefly as profit potential.

• Chapter 3: Brutal, ambitious, and narcissistic, Stanley proved perfectly suited to Europe’s colonial conquest of the African continent.

• Chapter 4: Leopold craved a colony, and he saw Stanley as the man to secure it for him personally.

• Chapter 5: Leopold started extracting profit from the Congo by every possible means.

• Chapter 6: Leopold built a savage slave colony, yet endlessly claimed altruistic motives for everything.

• Chapter 7: Congo’s horrors inspired two landmark works: one investigative journalism, the other enduring literature of profound and lasting significance.

• Chapter 8: When Leopold shifted focus from ivory to rubber, a grisly new chapter began in his Congo slave colony.

• Chapter 9: While reports of ghastly crimes trickled out of the Congo, Leopold carefully preserved his public image and reputation.

• Chapter 10: Morel’s outrage ignited the first international human rights movement of the twentieth century.

• Chapter 11: Roger Casement’s firsthand Congo experience galvanized the burgeoning Congo Reform movement campaign.

• Chapter 12: As the Congo reform movement gathered momentum, the tide started turning against Leopold himself.

• Chapter 13: Leopold’s reign of terror ended at last, yet the true extent of his crimes remains unknown to history.