Angola's Colossal Lie
Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977
Published on 7. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-90-04-30174-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'.....this is a creatively conceptualised and rigorously researched story that will be of great interest to scholars of the Portuguese empire, Angola, and the changing face of labour regimes in colonial Africa'.Jamie Miller, University of Pittsburgh, in Itinerario, Vol. 40, No. 1.
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Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-30174-0 (9789004301740)
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Jeremy Ball, Ph.D. (2003), University of California, Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College. He has published articles on labor and business history, the missionary encounter, and the ecological history of Angola.
Content
Note on Currency
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
1 Sugarcane, Aguardente, Forced Labor, and the Founding of Cassequel Sugar Plantation, 1899-1920
2 Cassequel and the Estado Novo, 1921 to World War II
3 "I Escaped in a Coffin": Remembering Angolan Forced Labor from World War ii to 1960
4 African Nationalism, War, and Labor Reform, 1961-1973
5 Independence and the Nationalization of Cassequel, 1974-1977
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
1 Sugarcane, Aguardente, Forced Labor, and the Founding of Cassequel Sugar Plantation, 1899-1920
2 Cassequel and the Estado Novo, 1921 to World War II
3 "I Escaped in a Coffin": Remembering Angolan Forced Labor from World War ii to 1960
4 African Nationalism, War, and Labor Reform, 1961-1973
5 Independence and the Nationalization of Cassequel, 1974-1977
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index