The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history
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The Death of Africans in the Construction of a Railroad
The vast majority of the workers died, you know, from neglect. And what is really striking is the extent to which that translated into a kind of attitude that the French administration and the Batignol had that these people were racially inferior. So the railroad is completed after a huge amount of time, but a hugely significant cost to life. But yet it's, it's celebrated.
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