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

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
VerfasserIn:
Ball, Jeremy,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; Volume 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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