{"id":18450,"date":"2022-10-11T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=217351"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T14:14:08","slug":"the-congo-ocean-railroads-deadly-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-congo-ocean-railroads-deadly-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Congo-Oc\u00e9an railroad\u2019s deadly history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 11 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>One of the deadliest construction projects in history, the Congo-Oc\u00e9an railroad likely caused as many as 23,000 African deaths. Unofficial estimates are much higher, and the exact number will never be known. Historian JP Daughton speaks to Elinor Evans about his new book on the arduous 13-year project led by French colonisers in equatorial Africa, in the wake of the First World War.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-217351-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/HistoryExtra20221011-1efa67e.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/HistoryExtra20221011-1efa67e.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/10\/HistoryExtra20221011-1efa67e.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>JP Daughton is the author of <em>In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Oc\u00e9an Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism<\/em> (W. W. 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