1. King Leopold
King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. ... Leopold feeling squeezed out by the British, French Empires, and the rising power of Germany, studied forms of colonialism from the Dutch East Indies, to the British possession in Indian and Africa. ... Leopold schemed to build himself a forced labor camp on a massive expanse of central Africa and was quite smooth with pulling all of this off. ... I do agree on one hand, but the only difference was that Leopold unlike the pilot did see the b...
- Word Count: 2087
- Approx Pages: 8
- Grade Level: Undergraduate