Angola's Colossal Lie: Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 (African History, 4)

Book info: Angola's Colossal Lie: Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 (African History, 4) (Paperback, 216 pages) – Brill, 2015. Language: English.

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. Editorial Reviews Review '.....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. About the Author 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.