books.google.com - 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 genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population...http://books.google.com/books/about/King_Leopold_s_Ghost.html?id=vYo-DO4tr-gC&q=sanford&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareKing Leopold's Ghost
