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About King Leopold’s Ghost King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild is a story of the brutal colonial regime in Congo under King Leopold II of a small European country, Belgium. Not only does the author Hochschild succeeds to tell the story of the King Leopold like a novel, but also he deflates the hero status of people like Henry Morton Stanley, Edmund D. Morel, William Sheppard, and Roger Casement. Surprisingly, King Leopold II of Belgium is not much remembered today outside his home country despite of his brutalism in his small colony, Congo. However, his reign in the Congo was so vicious that even the other colonial powers of the day such as Great Britain, France, and the United Sates had to condemn him. King Leopold II, born in 1835, was a greedy man who was never satisfied with his small infant country, comparable size of its Maryland in the U.S., which had just got independence in 1830. With small size of country with parliamentary democracy limiting his personal power, he started searching for something from his early reign, which might boost his wealth and power. He felt that by owning more than just his small country, that he would somehow be validated