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At the end of the 19th century, when the European powers divided Africa for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium carried out a brutal sacking of the territory surrounding the Congo river that provoked the death of over 10 million Africans. A rich and perturbing story, it describes a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the moving portrait of African rebels who did not kneel and a handful of valiant missionaries and explorers who traveled to Africa in search of adventure and instead became witnesses to a genocide. El fantasma del rey Leopoldo relata como a finales del siglo XIX, cuando las potencias europeas se repart�an �frica a golpe de escuadra, el rey Leopoldo II de B�lgica llev� a cabo un brutal saqueo del territorio que rodeaba el r�o Congo. Provoc� la muerte de diez millones de personas mientras cultivaba, ir�nicamente, su fama de monarca humanitario. El fantasma del rey Leopoldo es un relato rico y perturbador: es la descripci�n de un megal�mano de proporciones monstruosas; y es tambi�n el retrato conmovedor de quienes desafiaron a Leopoldo, los dirigentes rebeldes africanos que lucharon a la desesperada y un pu�ado de valientes misioneros, viajeros y j�venes idealistas que fueron a �frica en busca de trabajo o aventura y que acabaron siendo testigos de un genocidio.

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Adam Hochschild is a writer, journalist, historian, and professor. He received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University and has contributed essays to The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and the Nation.

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