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Chocolate Islands
- Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
- De: Catherine Higgs
- Narrado por: Kenneth Lee
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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. 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 laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sounds like someone's thesis
- De Michelle en 09-08-13
- Chocolate Islands
- Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
- De: Catherine Higgs
- Narrado por: Kenneth Lee
Sounds like someone's thesis
Revisado: 09-08-13
What disappointed you about Chocolate Islands?
The book was not a travelogue, nor was there any character development. It summarized thumb nail skecthes of the main character's visits to various cocoa plantations. The descriptions of the various plantations focused on production rates and census numbers. Never got a sense of the main character. Never got any detailed description of any of the other characters who crossed his path. His letters back to the Cadbury brothers seemed far from inditements of what was occurring, yet somehow the Cadbury brothers read them as such- not sure if the damning language was excerpted or if it was so understated I missed it. The story did not flow. Many of the characters appeared only briefly. It offered no sense of the place or the people.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
This was an academic paper read aloud. It would interest a very small handful of scholars who already had knowledge of the story and were concerned with minute details of plantation production.
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