Chocolate islands : cocoa, slavery, and colonial Africa / Catherine Higgs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higgs, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burtt, Joseph, 1862-1939--Travel--Africa, West.

Burtt, Joseph.

Cadbury, William A. (William Adlington), 1867-1957.

Cadbury, William A.

Cadbury Brothers--History.

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.

Portugal--Colonies--Africa--Administration.

Portugal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821444221

0821444220

OCLC:

804048993