Bad Deal congolese
In the book King Leopold’s Ghost, the author, Adam Hochschild, commenting on two chiefs that sold their land to Stanley for a few pieces of cloth per month and signed themselves up for any labor that had to be done in the area, he says, “It was an even worse trade than the Indian’s in Manhattan. (72)” I would have to totally agree with him.One reason that I think Hochschild is right in saying that the Native American’s got a longer piece of the stick from the white man than the Congolese is because the treaties actually had very different impacts on the two groups of people’s. In the case of the Native Americans, they signed their land over to the Dutch, and eventually had to rel
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Approximate Word count = 476
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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