King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost — Full Chapter Overview

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• 21 — From the first encounters, Europeans saw central Africa mainly as a source of profit.
• 32 — Stanley’s brutality, ambition, and narcissism made him well suited to Europe’s colonization of Africa.
• 43 — Leopold wanted a colony, and he believed Stanley could help him get one.
• 54 — Leopold started extracting profit from the Congo by any means necessary.
• 65 — Leopold built a brutal slave colony while repeatedly claiming his motives were altruistic.
• 76 — The horrors of the Congo inspired two classic works: one of investigative journalism and one of literature.
• 87 — When Leopold shifted from ivory to rubber, a grisly new chapter began in his Congo slave colony.
• 98 — As reports of horrific crimes seeped out of the Congo, Leopold carefully protected his public image.
• 109 — Morel’s outrage sparked the first international human rights movement of the twentieth century.
• 1110 — Roger Casement’s firsthand experience in the Congo helped ignite the Congo Reform movement.
• 1211 — As the Congo Reform movement gathered strength, the tide began turning against Leopold.
• 1312 — Leopold’s reign of terror finally ended, but the full extent of his crimes remains unknown.
• 1413 — Final summary