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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the Congo-Ocean railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Ocean railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read "Liberty,...
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