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	Adam Hochschild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adam Hochschild (born 1942) is an American writer.
		Hochschild's Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, published in 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
		Hochschild lives in San Francisco and has taught writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adam_Hochschild (405 words)

	Adam Hochschild: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Adam Hochschild (born 1942) is an American[For more, click on this link] writer.
		Hochschild was born in New York City, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Hochschild lives in San Francisco[For more info, click on this link] and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ad/adam_hochschild.htm (829 words)

	King Leopold's Ghost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hochschild dedicates a chapter to Joseph Conrad, the famous Anglo-Polish writer, in the first years of Belgian colonization only a sea captain assigned to a Congo steamer.
		Hochschild observes that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, despite its abstract and evocative theme, is in fact a quite realistic picture of the Congo Free State and its main character, Kurtz, is inspired by real figures of state functionnaires.
		Hochschild claims that the estimates about the reduction of the population of the Congo reported in his book are taken directly from Stengers' own books.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Leopold's_Ghost (950 words)

	BookPage Interview Month 2005: author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Adam Hochschild has the rare ability to take seemingly dull, dry or depressing events of history and turn them into a riveting narrative that both deepens a reader's understanding of the past and directly connects that past to the present.
		Hochschild did this in his critically acclaimed 1998 bestseller, King Leopold's Ghost, an astonishing account of King Leopold II of the Belgians' reign of terror in Africa at the beginning of the 20th century and the efforts to stop it.
		Hochschild says he originally intended to write a biography of John Newton, author of the song, "Amazing Grace," a former slave-ship captain turned preacher who, legend says, had a change of heart and became a champion of the antislavery movement.
	www.bookpage.com /0501bp/adam_hochschild.html (708 words)

	AlterNet: King Leopold's Ghost Makes a Comeback
		Adam Hochschild's "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa," which will appear in paperback this month, achieves a basic tenet of historical writing: the retrieval of a buried past.
		Hochschild describes how between 1884 and 1907 Leopold, frantic to carve for himself a colonial empire, lay claim to the Congo under the most paradoxical of guises -- humanitarianism -- while actually letting loose a system of terror in which entire Congolese villages were forced to harvest rubber or face death by their Belgian overseers.
		Hochschild describes how between 1884 and 1907 Leopold, frantic to carve for himself a colonial empire, lay claim to the Congo under the most paradoxical of guises --humanitarianism --while actually letting loose a system of terror in which entire Congolese villages were forced to harvest rubber or face death by their Belgian overseers.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=1059 (2076 words)

	When freedom was the "peculiar institution" \| Salon.com
		Adam Hochschild's new book, "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves," begins on May 22, 1787, when a dozen men met in a printing shop in London.
		Hochschild chronicles the movement over that half-century, from the printing shop meeting to the eve of emancipation, when a group of slaves in Jamaica threw their shackles into a coffin and, quite literally, buried the chains.
		Hochschild, a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine and a commentator for NPR, is no stranger to the history of race relations, or to liberal activism.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2005/01/19/hochschild/index.html (931 words)

	amazing information about Belgium
		As depicted by Hochschild, the people in "Ghost" emerge as larger-than-life figures, the sort of characters who might easily populate a Victorian melodrama were it not for the tragic and very real consequences of their actions.
		He succeeded in winning this recognition, Hochschild argues, by playing one great European power against another and by portraying his control of the Congo as a kind of benevolent protectorship that would bring a civilizing influence to the continent while thwarting the malign designs of Arab slave-traders eager to exploit the same region.
		Hochschild writes about these horrifying events with tightly controlled anger, and he brings equal passion to his account of the small band of protesters who orchestrated resistance to Leopold's rule.
	www.netanyahu.org /aminabbel.html (1075 words)

	King Leopold's Ghost (ISBN 0618001905): Very Well Said (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hochschild is the first to admit that it is nearly impossible to find African sources for his material, but that makes the identities of those sources that much more interesting, especially for readers who want to learn more about the subject at hand.
		Hochschild's picture of Stanley is the currently popular one: a massively insecure man given to self-promotion; a driven individual with a compulsive need to prove himself, stemming largely from his orphaned and neglected childhood.
		Adam Hochschild's book is a grim reminder of what can happen, and is probably still going on in some form, when we accept without question what our leaders, be they political or economic, are doing in our country's name.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/k/king-leopolds-ghost-0618001905.php (10489 words)

	Books: Corruption in the Congo (Memphis Flyer . 10-04-99)
		In the early 1990s, award-winning writer Adam Hochschild was sitting on a plane, reading a book, when he came across a footnote citing Mark Twain's involvement in a worldwide movement against Congolese slave labor.
		Hochschild is able to reconstruct the largely untold history of the Congolese genocide through the work of several men -- Europeans and Americans, fl and white -- who risked much to unmask Leopold's crimes.
		Adam Hochschild answers questions about the reaction to his provocative book, the history of the Congo, and the political landscape of the post-colonial era.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-04-99/memphis_book.html (1347 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Costly Conquests (June 24 - June 30, 1999)
		Hochschild works from a wide range of documents from the period to paint his devastating portrait of Leopoldian savagery.
		Instead, many of the eyewitnesses to whom Hochschild appeals for evidence were strangely proud of their efforts on behalf of their king, and Hochschild damns them with their own words.
		Hochschild and Lindqvist have produced unsettling, even harrowing books that extend our understanding of dark moments in world history--moments that are sadly being recapitulated today in Africa, South Asia, the Balkans...wherever conquerors seek to establish empires.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/06-24-99/book1.htm (562 words)

	Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild: Reviews
		Hochschild has a novelist's flair for narrative, and this is a horrifically readable history.
		For all its terrible theme, Hochschild's book is not in the least depressing, because it is suffused with admiration for the courage and enlightenment of the men and women who crusaded against this evil, and finally prevailed.
		[Hochschild] is extraordinarily good on the way that the movement brought together people who went on to other political commitments.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/hochschildadam/burythechains (824 words)

	Ishmael Reed Konch Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Adam Hochschild doesn't say this typical dribble outright, but that, in essence, is the gist of his article entitled: "Birth of a Nation - Has the bloody 200-year history of Haiti doomed it to more violence?"
		Yet, from reading Adam Hochschild's article you would not get a glimmer of the real situation of U.S. plunder and naked conquest in Haiti, nor the story of debt, dependency and foreign domination which has ushered in all the 33 Coup D'etats in Haiti's history.
		Hochschild is the 200-year campaign, by the U.S./Euros to disenfranchise - economically and politically - the Haitian people and the blood letting, poverty and class divisions that that brings forth.
	www.ishmaelreedpub.com /june_2004/art_6_04_laurent.htm (1208 words)

	AfricaSpeaks.com - Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa
		Hochschild examines how, in the nineteenth century European drive for possessions in Africa, the moral rationalisation of the "civilising" mission was used to justify colonialism.
		Hochschild comments, "High school teachers and college professors who have discussed this book in thousands of classrooms over the years tend to do so in terms of Freud, Jung, and Nietzche; of classical myth, Victorian innocence, and original sin; of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism.
		Hochschild also criticises the almost exclusive focus of the CRA movement on Belgium, citing comparable brutality by the US in the Philippines, the British in Australia, the Germans in what is now Namibia.
	www.africaspeaks.com /articles/2004/3107.html (2315 words)

	Dictators' ghosts haunt Congo vote, says author - Boston.com
		American writer Adam Hochschild sees the ghosts of dictators past haunting the Democratic Republic of Congo as the former Belgian colony prepares for its first democratic elections in 40 years.
		Hochschild said resource-rich Congo was a prime example of the "commodities curse" that has afflicted many African states.
		Hochschild said that global treaties such as one designed to stamp out trade in so-called conflict diamonds should be given more teeth and extended to other valuable resources.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/04/07/dictators_ghosts_haunt_congo_vote_says_author?mode=PF (875 words)

	Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa: A review of King Leopold's Ghost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Adam Hochschild's study of King Leopold II of Belgium's creation of the Congo Free State goes to the essence of the economic and political systems established in colonial Africa.
		Hochschild quotes the Governor of the Equatorial District of the Congo Free State when the demand for rubber became ferocious: “As soon as it was a question of rubber, I wrote to the government, 'To gather rubber in the district...
		Hochschild writes that, whilst Conrad must have met dozens of candidates for Kurtz during his time in the Congo, Leon Rom, head of the Force Publique, bares his unmistakable stamp.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/sep1999/king-s06.shtml (2322 words)

	Leopold's Heart of Darkness / Adam Hochschild tells how Belgium's king savaged the Congo and spawned the first human ...
		Adam Hochschild's ``King Leopold's Ghost'' is an absorbing and horrifying account of the traffic in human misery that went on in Leopold's so-called Congo Free State, and of the efforts of a handful of heroic crusaders to bring the atrocities to light.
		University of California at Berkeley journalism professor Hochschild, a founder of Mother Jones magazine and involved as a board member in its recent editorial turmoil, enumerates the causes of that depopulation: 1) murder, 2) starvation, exhaustion and exposure, 3) disease, and 4) a lowered birth rate.
		Hochschild's gripping narrative, as dense as a novel and laden with subplots, shows among many other things the roots of the chaos and bloodshed ravaging the Congo today.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/27/RV34459.DTL (1117 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Hochschild does an absolutely astonishing job of bringing his characters to life, from Leopold, the Belgian king, to the motley group of human rights advocates who fight him on the world stage.
		And Hochschild does point out that whatever Leopold's sins, he wasn't guilty of genocide (as other colonial powers in Africa were)...
		Hochschild takes a tale that once held the world's attention and brings it to life again.
	www.exn.ca /stories/2000/03/13/53.asp (608 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Adam Hochschild on hubris and the pseudostate
		The rolling of drums (or is that the boom of mortars?), the handing over of what our President insists is "complete, full sovereignty" to an "Iraqi government," the moment for which this whole war was supposedly fought (once, at least, that every other conceivable reason fell away).
		Below, Adam Hochschild considers the ragged "pseudostate" we've just constructed in Iraq in the context of the history of pseudostates and the hubris that invariably lies behind their creation.
		Adam Hochschild is the author of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, as well as books about South Africa and the former Soviet Union.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1516 (2382 words)

	Bury the Chains: An Interview with Adam Hochschild
		This achievement was revolutionary, says Hochschild, not simply because it was a moral victory but because it inaugurated the era of the grassroots human-rights campaign.
		Hochschild credits much of that vision to Bury the Chains’ protagonist, Thomas Clarkson, a tireless agitator who crisscrossed England making the case against slavery, only to be written out of the popular histories of the movement he built.
		Hochschild is a co-founder of Mother Jones and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2005/01/hochschild.html (2560 words)

	King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
		Even Hochschild acknowledges that he knew little about Leopold's misrule (and the campaign against it), and near the end of the book he describes a Belgian diplomat who was also unfamiliar with these events.
		Hochschild is effective in his descriptions, especially of the colourful individuals involved, both the good and the bad.
		Hochschild simplifies on occasion, but he does so in a reasonable and acceptable manner.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/hochscha/kingleo.htm (902 words)

	News Brief
		Adam Hochschild, author of the new book Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves will give a talk about his book on Wednesday, March 9, at 3:30 p.m.
		Hochschild's 1998 book, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, won the California Book Awards gold medal for nonfiction, the Duff Cooper prize, and the Lionel Gelber prize, and it was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
		Hochschild will be signing copies of his book at the Capitola Book Café later the same evening.
	currents.ucsc.edu /04-05/03-07/brief-hochschild.asp (329 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Review: Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
		Adam Hochschild gives the heroes - and one heroine - of the anti-slavery movement their due in Bury the Chains, says Robin White
		Adam Hochschild's acclaimed account of the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's Ghost, told the tale of one of most terrible abuses of human rights: the theft of a vast country and the killing of between five and eight million of its inhabitants.
		Hochschild concludes with a debate on who did most to end the sordid trade in human beings.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1410155,00.html (1341 words)

	Teachable Moment -
		Adam Hochschild takes on another piece of the history of slavery in his book King Leopold's Ghost, published in 1999.
		Here, Hochschild tells the monstrous story of how, beginning in the 1880s, King Leopold II of Belgium seized as his personal fiefdom a huge territory surrounding the Congo River.
		Among "the entrenched wrongs of our own age," Hochschild writes in Bury the Chains, are "the vast gap between rich and poor nations, the relentless spread of nuclear weapons, the multiple assaults on the earth, air, and water that must support future generations, the habit of war.
	www.teachablemoment.org /ideas/hochschildbooks.html (1272 words)

	Powell's Books - Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild
		Like Hochschild's classic King Leopold's Ghost, Bury the Chains abounds in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of unsung heroes and colorful villains.
		Hochschild tells of this campaign with verve, style and humor, but without preaching or moralizing, letting the horrific facts of slavery in the Caribbean (far more brutal than in the American South) speak for themselves.
		Along the way, Hochschild illuminates how Britain's economy was dependent upon the slave trade, why England's civil society was particularly hospitable to a movement to abolish that trade, and the impact on the movement of the French Revolution and the particularly bloody slave uprising in French St. Domingue (today's Haiti).
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0618104690 (592 words)

	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
		Hochschild's fine book of historical inquiry, which draws heavily on eyewitness accounts of the colonialists' savagery, brings this little-studied episode in European and African history into new light.
		Under his rule, which he tried to depict as beneficial to the natives (bringing the savages the ennobling light of civilization, the typical Victoriam delusions), a sadistic form of slavery was the order of the day.
		Hochschild never manages to secure absolute evidence that Leopold knew of the atrocities, but given the detail-obsessed, controlling personality that emerges from the book, it seems that the king had to know at least most of what went on.
	www.textbooksrus.com /search/bookdetail?isbn=0618001905 (621 words)

	Salon Books \| King Leopold's Ghost
		Hochschild understandably wanted to know why so few of us have ever heard about the atrocities of Leopold's rule.
		Hochschild, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, presents the story as a parable of human rights abuses stemmed by activism.
		Hochschild prefers to see the Congo as a sorry tale that is in the end redemptive.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/09/09sneaks.html (590 words)

	Belgian bully(Metro Times Detroit)
		Hochschild: When Marchal began doing his extraordinary work – and he is the scholar of this period – one key archive in Belgium was still closed.
		Such was the dilemma for Edmund Morel, the hero of Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, a sprawling, novelistic account of exploitation and slavery in turn-of-the-century colonial Africa.
		Hochschild, a renowned journalist who took on Stalin and the Russian psyche in a previous book, is on a mission in this text.
	www.metrotimes.com /20/23/Features/culBelgian.htm (1146 words)

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