Angola's colossal lie : forced labor on a sugar plantation, 1913-1977 / by Jeremy Ball.
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TextSeries: African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 4.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004301757
- 9004301755
- 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
- Travail forcé -- Angola -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Canne à sucre -- Industrie -- Angola -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Sucre -- Fabrication et raffinage -- Angola -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Forced labor
- Sugar -- Manufacture and refining
- Sugar workers
- Sugarcane industry
- Angola
- 1900-1999
- 331.11734096730904 23
- HD4875.A838 B35 2015eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-190) and index.
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed November 20, 2015).
"In Angola's Colossal Lie. Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 Jeremy Ball explains how forced labor produced enormous profits at one of colonial Angola's largest agro-industrial enterprises. Using oral histories and a never before accessed company archive, Ball describes how Angolan experienced and remember forced labor."--Provided by publisher.
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.
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