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Author Higgs, Catherine.

Title Chocolate islands : cocoa, slavery, and colonial Africa / Catherine Higgs
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Joseph Burtt and William Cadbury -- Cocoa controversy -- Chocolate island -- Sleeping sickness and slavery -- Luanda and the coast -- The slave route -- Mozambican miners -- Cadbury, Burtt, and Portuguese Africa -- Cocoa and slavery
Summary "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. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt's sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Burtt, Joseph, 1862-1939 -- Travel -- Africa, West
Cadbury, William A. (William Adlington), 1867-1957.
SUBJECT Burtt, Joseph, 1862-1939 fast
Cadbury, William A. (William Adlington), 1867-1957 fast
Subject Cadbury Brothers -- History
SUBJECT Cadbury Brothers fast
Subject Forced labor -- Sao Tome and Principe -- History
Slavery -- Sao Tome and Principe -- History
Cacao -- Harvesting -- Sao Tome and Principe -- History
Cacao -- Harvesting -- Moral and ethical aspects
Cacao growers -- Sao Tome and Principe -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Cacao growers
Forced labor
Colonies -- Administration
Portuguese colonies
Rural conditions
Slavery
Travel
SUBJECT Sao Tome and Principe -- Rural conditions -- History
Portugal -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration
Subject Africa
West Africa
Sao Tome and Principe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012009341
ISBN 0821444220
9780821444221
Other Titles Cocoa, slavery, and colonial Africa