Title: Angola's Colossal Lie
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.
Subjects: Forced labor, Sugarcane industry, Angola, economic conditions, Manufacture and refining, Sugar workers, History, Sugar, Travail forcé, Histoire, Plantations de canne à sucre, Personnel, Sucre, Fabrication et raffinage