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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. "Catherine Higgs writes about the chocolate islands with clarity and conviction, commanding the evidence while presenting an argument about the 'dignity of labor' with an elegance of style. In terms of presentation, research and structure, the book is a tour de force." David Birmingham - author of Portugal and Africa and Trade and Empire in the Atlantic, 1400 to 1600 "Higgs offers a well-researched examination of the dynamics of race, labor, and colonialism in the early part of the twentieth century." Booklist "Like Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, Catherine Higgs takes us into another 'heart of darkness' of colonial rule. Chocolate Islands is a compelling read examining how the British chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers investigated the use of slave labor in Portuguese colonies to produce cocoa. It raises challenging questions not only about how a business with a humanitarian streak dealt with the use of forced labor in the early twentieth century, but also about the labor practices of businesses in the twenty-first-century world." Robert Edgar - Howard University, editor of An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche and coauthor of African Apocalypse: The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet "A fine, detailed work about the intersection of chocolate and slavery in the first decade of the 20th century." - Library Journal 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....
