Angola's colossal lie : : forced labor on a sugar plantation, 1913-1977 / / by Jeremy Ball.

Angola's Colossal Lie. Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 is the first in-depth study of forced labor on a Portuguese-owned sugar plantation in colonial Angola. A prominent Portuguese civil servant dubbed the labor system in Angola a “colossal lie” because the reality so contradicted...

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Superior document:African History, Volume 4
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; Volume 4.
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Angola's colossal lie : forced labor on a sugar plantation, 1913-1977 / by Jeremy Ball.
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Sugarcane, Aguardente, Forced Labor, and the Founding of Cassequel Sugar Plantation, 1899–1920 -- Cassequel and the Estado Novo, 1921 to World War II -- “I Escaped in a Coffin”: Remembering Angolan Forced Labor from World War II to 1960 -- African Nationalism, War, and Labor Reform, 1961–1973 -- Independence and the Nationalization of Cassequel, 1974–1977 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Angola's Colossal Lie. Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 is the first in-depth study of forced labor on a Portuguese-owned sugar plantation in colonial Angola. A prominent Portuguese civil servant dubbed the labor system in Angola a “colossal lie” because the reality so contradicted the law. Using extensive oral history interviews with former forced laborers, Jeremy Ball explains how Angolans experienced forced labor. Ball also interviews former Portuguese administrators to provide multiple perspectives about the transition to independence and the nationalization of the plantation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Forced labor Angola History 20th century.
Sugar workers Angola History 20th century.
Sugarcane industry Angola History 20th century.
Sugar Manufacture and refining Angola History 20th century.
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