Chocolate islands : cocoa, slavery, and colonial Africa / Catherine Higgs.

"In [this book], Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of Săo 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 Săo Tomé and Príncipe and a year in Angola. His five-month trek across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. ..."--Book jacket.

Prologue: Joseph Burtt and William Cadbury -- 1. Cocoa controversy -- 2. Chocolate island -- 3. Sleeping sickness and slavery -- 4. Luanda and the coast -- 5. The slave route -- 6. Mozambican miners -- 7. Cadbury, Burtt, and Portuguese Africa -- Epilogue: Cocoa and slavery.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-223) and index.