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Chocolate islands : cocoa, slavery, and colonial Africa / Catherine Higgs.
Lippincott Library HD4875.S36 H55 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higgs, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burtt, Joseph, 1862-1939.
- Cadbury Brothers.
- Forced labor--Sao Tome and Principe--History.
- Forced labor.
- Slavery--Sao Tome and Principe--History.
- Slavery.
- Cacao--Harvesting--Sao Tome and Principe--History.
- Cacao.
- Cacao--Harvesting--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Cacao growers--Sao Tome and Principe--History.
- Cacao growers.
- History.
- Travel.
- Colonies.
- Administration.
- Harvesting.
- Portugal--Colonies--Africa--Administration.
- Portugal.
- Burtt, Joseph, 1862-1939--Travel--Africa, West.
- Burtt, Joseph.
- Cadbury, William A. (William Adlington), 1867-1957.
- Cadbury, William A.
- Cadbury Brothers--History.
- West Africa.
- Africa.
- Sao Tome and Principe.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Cathering Higgs (history, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville), has combined careful academic research with the kind of skillful writing you'd expect in a good historical novel. She tells the true story of the chocolate islands, where slavery, free labor, and coercion all formed part of the colonial history of cocoa-growing. Her account begins when the Cadbury Company, fair-minded makers of children's chocolates, was accused of using slave labor in the early years of the 20th century. The book follows Cadbury's own investigation into whether its cocoa-harvesters were Portuguese slaves. It describes both what Cadbury investigators discovered and what they did about it. Higgs vividly evokes the people involved, and documents her sources (the book includes extensive notes and a choice bibliography). The book is well illustrated with black and white photographs. While Higgs has the fairness and sense to let the story stand for itself, it raises lasting questions about the dignity of work and the pressures and practices of international business. The book is strikingly relevant to today's headlines. It is an excellent study for academics who want to know how to research at a professional level and then write well for the public, and it will strongly appeal to general readers. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821420065
- 0821420062
- 9780821444221
- 0821444220
- 9780821414552
- 0821414550
- 9780821414569
- 0821414569
- 9780821440995
- 0821440993
- OCLC:
- 768800622
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