Higgs, Catherine.

Chocolate Islands : Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (275 pages)

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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Burtt, Joseph, 1862-1939--Travel--Africa, West.
Cadbury, William A. (William Adlington), 1867-1957.
Cadbury Brothers--History.
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.
Portugal--Colonies--Africa--Administration.


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