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King Leopold's ghost King Leopold's ghost Adam Hochschild In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocid… OL1869541W
The Business of Genocide The Business of Genocide Michael Thad Allen "During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery exten… OL6213193W
Slavery by another name Slavery by another name Douglas A. Blackmon In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civi… OL9334405W