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Chocolate Islands traces the journey of Joseph Burtt, an Englishman, hired by the Cadbury brothers to determine if the cocoa plantations were using slaves to harvest and process the cocoa beans. Burtt traveled to Sao Tome, Principe, Angola, with a short trip to Mozambique and South Africa. Burtt did determine that workers were forcibly recruited to work, and that they were coming from Angola.
This book was very well researched and found it to be interesting.
This book was very well researched and found it to be interesting.
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