![]() ![]() Indeed, as Burtt also went to Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa, on his long and generously funded fact-finding tour from 1904 to 1907, the title of this book is a little misleading. ![]() Catherine Higgs has found a new and original niche in this crowded field, by concentrating on the role of Joseph Burtt, special envoy for William Cadbury, the Quaker chocolate magnate. Published on H-Luso-Africa (August, 2013)Ī major colonial scandal broke out in the years before the First World War, as accusations flew around the world that slaves were cultivating cocoa on the Portuguese African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, in the Gulf of Guinea. of History, School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)) Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa.Īthens: Ohio University Press, 2012. ![]()
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