King Leopold's Ghost Analysis
In King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild highlights King Leopold’s greed for the the Congo by detailing the earliest history of Africa’s colonies and the key roles that some explorers played during his reign. Hochschild put his novel together to were it’s vivid and is a novelistic narrative that helps the reader get a clear image of the magnitude of horror perpetrated by King Leopold and his minions.
There were many men and women associated with the beginning of Leopold’s reign, during Leopold’s reign and after Leopold’s reign. But, some played more effective roles than others. … Leopold’s reign raised an insurmountable amount of madness, no one in there right mind approved of his methods. Many activist stood against Leopold …show more content…
For example, Irishman, Roger Casement, was a British consul in the Congo instructed by the British government to go inside the heart of the Congo and scrutinize the charges against Leopold’s administration. He toured the rubber-producing regions, documenting the abuses. The sights made Casement furious. He wrote the report in London where he met E. D. Morel and with him formed the Congo Reform Association. Casement’s reports became very valuable in verifying earlier reports, and it became difficult for Leopold to fight the official British document. Even though Casement was knighted for his work he would soon be arrested for his work for Irish freedom. He tried to buy arms for the Easter uprising in Ireland and was put in prison, eventually being executed for treason. Roger Casement was just one of many characters in Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost. Many of which that served as informers to the public, informing them of Leopold’s actions. Another, for instance, is Rev. William Sheppard. He was a black Presbyterian in Montgomery and Atlanta who went to the Congo as a missionary in 1890. Sheppard was popular with the Kuba people whose language he learned and whose culture he recorded for prosterity. When Leopold’s militia terrorized the Kuba
There were many men and women associated with the beginning of Leopold’s reign, during Leopold’s reign and after Leopold’s reign. But, some played more effective roles than others. … Leopold’s reign raised an insurmountable amount of madness, no one in there right mind approved of his methods. Many activist stood against Leopold …show more content…
For example, Irishman, Roger Casement, was a British consul in the Congo instructed by the British government to go inside the heart of the Congo and scrutinize the charges against Leopold’s administration. He toured the rubber-producing regions, documenting the abuses. The sights made Casement furious. He wrote the report in London where he met E. D. Morel and with him formed the Congo Reform Association. Casement’s reports became very valuable in verifying earlier reports, and it became difficult for Leopold to fight the official British document. Even though Casement was knighted for his work he would soon be arrested for his work for Irish freedom. He tried to buy arms for the Easter uprising in Ireland and was put in prison, eventually being executed for treason. Roger Casement was just one of many characters in Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost. Many of which that served as informers to the public, informing them of Leopold’s actions. Another, for instance, is Rev. William Sheppard. He was a black Presbyterian in Montgomery and Atlanta who went to the Congo as a missionary in 1890. Sheppard was popular with the Kuba people whose language he learned and whose culture he recorded for prosterity. When Leopold’s militia terrorized the Kuba