The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad

The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad

''Masterful'' The EconomistThe Congo-Oc¿ railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands a......
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<p><strong>''Masterful'' <em>The Economist</em></strong></p><p><strong>The Congo-Oc¿ railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history.</strong> 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.</p><p>African workers were conscripted at gunpoint, separated from their families and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage; excavated by hand thousand of tonnes 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 deat
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''Masterful'' The EconomistThe Congo-Océan railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. 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 conscripted at gunpoint, separated from their families and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage; excavated by hand thousand of tonnes 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.The Tragedy of the Congo-Océan Railroad 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 industrialised empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses – the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record and eye-opening photographic evidence, J. P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.

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Velkommen til en av historiens mest gripende fortellinger - The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad. Denne boken tilbyr et dyptgående blikk på et av de dødeligste konstruksjonsprosjektene noensinne, som ble fullført i 1934, under en tid da Afrika var en fransk koloni. Tragedien som utspant seg her, har satt dype spor i historien, og Daughton tar oss med på en reise gjennom menneskesmerte og motstand.

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  • Utnyttelse av arbeiderne: African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, working under grusomme forhold.
  • Helseproblemer: Sykdom, underernæring og fysisk mishandling førte til en tragisk dødstall som sannsynligvis oversteg 20,000 personer.
  • Historisk dokumentasjon: Boken er basert på grundig forskning i franske og kongolesiske arkiver, og inneholder både dokumentariske bevis og gripende fotografier.

Forfatteren, J. P. Daughton, gir oss et episk narrativ som tvinger oss til å revurdere den moralske relasjonen mellom moderne industriland og to av de mest menneskelige impulsene: ønsket om å forbedre andres liv.

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Når du dykker inn i denne boken, vil du ikke bare oppleve en historisk beretning, men også føle på de menneskelige kostnadene og motsetningene ved et moderne imperium. Den gir en ny forståelse for de som led og mistet livet for en infrastruktur som mange tar for gitt i dag.

The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad er en uunnvikelig lesning for alle som er interessert i historie, kolonialisme og de moralske dilemmaene som følger med utvikling. Er du klar for å forstå hva som virkelig skjedde?

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