Chocolate Islands : Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa /

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"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 Tome and Príncipe - the chocolate islands - through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Afri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Higgs, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cadbury, William A. > (William Adlington), > 1867-1957.
Burtt, Joseph, > 1862-1939.
Burtt, Joseph, > 1862-1939 > Travel > Africa, West.
Cadbury Brothers.
Cadbury Brothers > History.
Travel.
Slavery.
Rural conditions.
Portuguese colonies.
Colonies > Administration.
Forced labor.
Cacao growers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Cacaoculteurs > São Tome et Príncipe > Histoire.
Cacaoyer > Recolte > Aspect moral.
Cacaoyer > Recolte > São Tome et Príncipe > Histoire.
Travail force > São Tome et Príncipe > Histoire.
Cacao growers > Sao Tome and Principe > History.
Cacao > Harvesting > Moral and ethical aspects.
Cacao > Harvesting > Sao Tome and Principe > History.
Slavery > Sao Tome and Principe > History.
Forced labor > Sao Tome and Principe > History.
Sao Tome and Principe.
West Africa.
Africa.
Portugal > Colonies > Administration.
Portugal > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
Sao Tome and Principe > Rural conditions > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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 Tome 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 Tome and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt's sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers."--Project Muse.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (236 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780821444221

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