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From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favourite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer poverty includes the human stories of the producers and traders at the heart of the West African industry. Provocative and eye-opening, Chocolate Nations exposes the true story of how the treat we love makes it onto our supermarket shelves.

Cocoa trade --- Cacao growers --- Chocolate. --- Economic conditions.

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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. Burtt spent six months on São Tomé

Forced labor --- Slavery --- Cacao --- Cacao growers --- History. --- Harvesting --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Burtt, Joseph, --- Cadbury, William A. --- Travel --- Cadbury Brothers --- Portugal --- Colonies --- Administration. --- Cocoa farmers --- Growers, Cacao --- Chocolate tree --- Cocoa tree --- Theobroma cacao --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Cadbury, W. A. --- Cadbury's (Firm) --- Portugalii︠a︡ --- República Portuguesa --- Portugalia --- Portogalia --- Portogallo --- Portugali --- Sefarad --- Lusitania (Portugal) --- Farmers --- Theobroma --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Employees --- Cadbury (Firm) --- Portuguese Republic --- البرتغال --- al-Burtughāl --- برتغال --- Burtughāl --- الجمهورية البرتغالية --- al-Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- جمهورية البرتغالية --- Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- 葡萄牙 --- Putaoya --- 葡萄牙共和国 --- Putaoya Gongheguo --- Portugalsko --- Portugalská republika --- République portugaise --- Portugiesische Republik --- Portugál Köztársaság --- Repubblica Portoghese --- ポルトガル共和国 --- Porutogaru Kyōwakoku --- 포르투갈 --- P'orŭt'ugal --- 포르투갈공화국 --- P'orŭt'ugal Konghwaguk --- پرتغال --- Purtughāl --- جمهوري پرتغال --- Jumhūrī-i Purtughāl --- Republika Portugalska --- Португалия --- Португальская Республика --- Portugalʹskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Portekiz --- Portekiz Cumhuriyeti --- Republica Portugheză --- ポルトガル --- Porutogaru --- פורטוגל --- British Cocoa and Chocolate Company. --- Cadbury Group Limited. --- Enslaved persons