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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Oc an Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism free ebook download

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Author(s):	J. P. Daughton

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0393541010
Pages:	384	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The epic story of the Congo-Ocan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
The Congo-Ocan 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 foliagea forest of no joy  excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track  blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels  or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths.
In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulsesthe desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Ocan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
20 photographs, 3 maps

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