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Informationen zum Autor Catherine Higgs is a professor of history at the University of Tennessee! Knoxville. She is the author of "The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa! 1885-1959! " "Chocolate Islands: Cocoa! Slavery! and Colonial Africa!" and coeditor of "Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas! " all published by Ohio University Press. Klappentext 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 Sao Tome and Principe-the chocolate islands-through Angola and Mozambique! and finally to British Southern Africa. "In effect, Higgs has written a clear narrative account of Burtt's travels, aimed at a popular audience as much as an academic one, and with a good eye for illustrative anecdotes and pictures. In the process, she has deftly and ably woven into her text the findings of the existing scholarship on the great African labor scandals of the early twentieth century. Higgs has trawled industriously and productively through a wide variety of archival and printed primary sources in various countries." William G. Clarence Smith (Dept. of History, School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)) Zusammenfassung 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.
