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Chocolate Islands : Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (275 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444221
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chocolate IslandsDDC classification:
  • 331.76337409670904
LOC classification:
  • HD4875.S36H55 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Prologue Joseph Burtt and William Cadbury -- One Cocoa Controversy -- Two Chocolate Island -- Three Sleeping Sickness and Slavery -- Four Luanda and the Coast -- Five The Slave Route -- Six Mozambican Miners -- Seven Cadbury, Burtt, and Portuguese Africa -- Epilogue Cocoa and Slavery -- A Note on Currency -- A Note on Sources -- Abbreviations in the Notes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Prologue Joseph Burtt and William Cadbury -- One Cocoa Controversy -- Two Chocolate Island -- Three Sleeping Sickness and Slavery -- Four Luanda and the Coast -- Five The Slave Route -- Six Mozambican Miners -- Seven Cadbury, Burtt, and Portuguese Africa -- Epilogue Cocoa and Slavery -- A Note on Currency -- A Note on Sources -- Abbreviations in the Notes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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