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In Chocolates Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century quest of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe - the chocolate islands - through Angola and Mozambique, and lastly to United kingdom Southern Africa. Burtt had been employed by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited by see whether the cocoa it was buying from the hawaiian islands had been gathered by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the first colonial era. Burtt spent half a year on São Tomé and Príncipe and per year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 got him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and eventually helped change labor recruiting procedures in colonial Africa. This attractively written and participating travel narrative draws on choices in Portugal, the uk, and Africa to explore United kingdom and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, competition, and imperialism. In a tale still familiar a century after Burtt's sojourn, Chocolates Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that formed attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers. The publication is printed by Ohio College or university Press.
