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Cookie akzeptierenJ. P. Daughton
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
- W. W. Norton & Company
- 2021
- Gebunden
- 384 Seiten
- ISBN 9780393541014
The Congo-Océan 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, Equality, Fraternity," but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage-a "forest of no joy"; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their
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