N5 Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries

摘要

Higgs, CATHERINE. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press; distributed by Chicago Distribution Center, 2012. Pp. xv, 230. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-8214-2006-5. Explores Joseph Burtt's journey through Africa in the first decade of the twentieth century, on behalf of the Cadbury Brothers chocolate firm, to determine the involvement of slave labor in the harvesting of Cadbury's cocoa. Discusses the cocoa controversy; the chocolate island; sleeping sickness and slavery; Luanda and the coast; the slave route; Mozambican miners; Cadbury, Burtt, and Portuguese Africa; and cocoa and slavery. Higgs is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Select bibliography; index.