Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

by Catherine Higgs

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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 S o Tom and Pr ncipe-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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0821420062

ISBN13:9780821420065

Release Date:May 2012

Publisher:Ohio University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:1.12 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Discrimination & Racism History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Slavery & Emancipation Social Science Social Sciences

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