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Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

Higgs, Catherine

Hardcover

African HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0821420062
ISBN13: 9780821420065
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: May 21 2012
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe-the chocolate islands-through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era. Burtt spent six months on São Tomé and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa.

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