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This 4 page paper discusses the book “King Leopold’s Ghost” and answers the questions of who were the people who brought the atrocities in the Belgian Congo to light; and why there was no sustained outcry about them. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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are colonies, exploited for the purpose of enriching the home country. But before the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and before that Zaire) was the Belgian
Congo, it was known as the Congo Free State and belonged to one man, King Leopold II. It was his personal fiefdom, and he ran it with a brutality and
violence that equals anything done by Hitler or Stalin. However, his murders remained largely unknown, at least until Adam Hochschild wrote King Leopolds Ghost, and reminded the world of what
had happened in the Congo. This paper discusses the men who were the "heroes" in bringing Leopolds crimes to light; and why the indignation over his reign of terror was
so quickly forgotten. Discussion We turn first to those men who exposed Leopolds atrocities. There are four individuals who stand out for their efforts to bring the story to the
public: George Washington Williams, William Henry Sheppard, E.D. Morel and Sir Roger Casement (Hochschild, 1998). Both Williams and Sheppard were African-Americans; Morel and Casement were British (Hochschild, 1998). Williams
was a veteran of the American Civil War, and had a rather checkered career, at times claiming to have degrees he had not earned (Hochschild, 1998). But there can be
no doubt that he was a historian, and a good one; W.E.B. Dubois called him the "greatest historian of the race" (Hochschild, 1998, p. 104). As a historian, and an
African-American, Williams was vitally interested in the struggles of his people, and thus he found himself in the Congo. He was the first to report on conditions there to the
outside world; unfortunately, because he was black, his reports appear to have had no lasting impact (Hochschild, 1998). William Henry Sheppard was another African-American, and a missionary who served in
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