Angola's Colossal Lie
Subtitle: Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789004301757
Subjects: Forced labor; Sugarcane industry; Angola, economic conditions
Description: This 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.