In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful job of giving detailed descriptions, especially of the colorful individuals involved, both good and bad. ... To keep his colony under control Leopold developed a military dictatorship over Congo, he paid mercenaries, but in 1888 these were transformed into the "Force Publique" and at it's peak there were members of 19,000 conscripted African soldiers and 420 white officers. The soldiers were slaves who had been press-ganged through hostage taking, or stolen as children and brought up in child colonies founded by Leopold and the Catholic C...

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As well as Stressing Caliban's bestiality, critics pointed out that Caliban was Ariel's opposite, "the other" in a binary opposition between body and spirit, evil and good, guilt and innocence-a view that fits well with eighteenth-century moral certainties. ...

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Though Jamaica was not as large or good a commercial prospect as the Spanish possession of Hispaniola, it was larger than the British islands of the eastern Caribbean such as Barbados and possessed a far more strategic position in the Caribbean. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate