Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led Britishenterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed bythe murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a privatekingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, aprogram that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted formore deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulouslyresearched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced laborunder Lord Leverhulme "s rule and the appalling conditions imposed uponthe 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.Marchal, Jules is the author of 'Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts', published 2008 under ISBN 9781844672394 and ISBN 1844672395.