Angola's Colossal Lie

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.

• 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 II3 “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, 1974–1977Conclusion Appendix BibliographyIndex

'.....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.