"Object of Plunder: The Congo through the Centuries" by Adam Hochschild
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Length: 63min 36sec (3816 seconds)
Published: Tue Apr 15 2014
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Journalist, historian, and author of "King Leopold's Ghost" Adam Hochschild (UC Berkeley) traces the history of the Congo as it emerges from photographs, cartoons, posters, and documents. He details the 19th-century colonial exploration and exploitation of the Congo under the infamous King Leopold II of Belgium and discusses the repercussions of his regime.