Listen "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa"
Episode Synopsis
How did a European king secretly enslave a nation and murder millions? King Leopold's Ghost exhumes one of history’s greatest and most forgotten crimes. Behind the facade of philanthropy, King Leopold II of Belgium plundered the Congo’s wealth through a brutal regime of terror. This is the gripping story of his victims, his colossal greed, and the unlikely heroes who fought a transatlantic battle to expose his ghost—a haunting legacy of exploitation and the courageous birth of the modern human rights movement.
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