Richied Was Wrong: Belgians and the Congo

History is a dynamic discipline and as such, when your wrong as a historian, it is not just best but rather essential that you mend your errors and declare them to all who might (and certainly did) listen. Thus, the case of Richied's previous teaching on the experience of the Congolese during during the État Indépendant du Congo (EIC) period as well as formal colonization by the Belgians beginning in 1908. He leaned and relied too heavily on too few accounts that fit into what he had previously been told about the era, especially Adam Hochschild's KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST. This episode serves as his formal and public confession and plea for mercy, as well as hopeful absolution. Revisionism is the matter in this intellectual rite.Oak Parkers wrestle with the ramifications of democracy--yet again while a guy actually and without the slightest hesitance, celebrates his career as a--get this--librarian.www.hoth2ohistory.com@HotH2OHistory@chuckwest20BUY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.tridentinebrewing.comBUY GARY TRIDENTINE BEER: www.buymeacoffee.com/garyrichiedPAX.