Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

by Catherine Higgs

Book Overview

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: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.5"