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A fine, detailed work about the intersection of chocolate and slavery in the first decade of the 20th century. -- Library Journal

Catherine Higgs writes about the chocolate islands with clarity and conviction, commanding the evidence while presenting an argument about the 'dignity of labor' with an elegance of style. In terms of presentation, research and structure, the book is a tour de force. David Birmingham - author of Portugal and Africa and Trade and Empire in the Atlantic, 1400 to 1600 Higgs offers a well-researched examination of the dynamics of race, labor, and colonialism in the early part of the twentieth century. Booklist Like Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, Catherine Higgs takes us into another 'heart of darkness' of colonial rule. Chocolate Islands is a compelling read examining how the British chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers investigated the use of slave labor in Portuguese colonies to produce cocoa. It raises challenging questions not only about how a business with a humanitarian streak dealt with the use of forced labor in the early twentieth century, but also about the labor practices of businesses in the twenty-first-century world. Robert Edgar - Howard University, editor of An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche and coauthor of African Apocalypse: The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet A fine, detailed work about the intersection of chocolate and slavery in the first decade of the 20th century. - Library Journal

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Catherine Higgs is Professor of History in the Department of History and Sociology in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. She is the author of The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885–1959, Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, and coeditor of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas, all published by Ohio University Press.

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