Angola's colossal lie : forced labor on a sugar plantation, 1913-1977 / by Jeremy Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ball, Jeremy, author.

Series:

African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 4.

African history ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced labor--Angola--History--20th century.

Forced labor.

Sugar workers--Angola--History--20th century.

Sugar workers.

Sugarcane industry--Angola--History--20th century.

Sugarcane industry.

Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Angola--History--20th century.

Sugar.

Sugar--Manufacture and refining.

History.

Angola.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 199 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

This is the first in-depth study of forced labor on a Portuguese-owned sugar plantation in colonial Angola. A prominent Portuguese civil servant dubbed the labor system in Angola a “colossal lie” because the reality so contradicted the law. Using extensive oral history interviews with former forced laborers, Jeremy Ball explains how Angolans experienced forced labor. Ball also interviews former Portuguese administrators to provide multiple perspectives about the transition to independence and the nationalization of the plantation.

Contents:

Introduction

Sugarcane, aguardente, forced labor, and the founding of Cassequel sugar plantation, 1899-1920

Cassequel and the Estado novo, 1921 to World War II

"I escaped in a coffin" : remembering Angolan forced labor from World War II to 1960

African nationalism, war, and labor reform, 1961-1973

Independence and the nationalization of Cassequel, 1974-1977

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-190) and index.

ISBN:

9789004301740

9004301747

OCLC:

911019977