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The Connected Histories of Colonial Cocoa
Start Date: 10/15/2015Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Date: 10/15/2015End Time: 5:00 PM
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Event Description
Join us for a talk by Marta Macedo, post-doctoral fellow at the University of Lisbon.

 

In the early 1900s, an obscure Portuguese colony in the equatorial Atlantic rose as the world’s leading cocoa producer. Cocoa from the island of São Tomé was grown on large plantations, with indentured labor, and intense monoculture. This specific political economy had been able to create both a standard commodity and a stable colonial power. As São Tomé’s plantation technology became the model for making an industry-suited cocoa, the experimental knowledge produced there became global and inspired the colonization of Belgium Congo and German Cameroons. By placing plantation cocoa at the center of this narrative, the present paper intents to reveal the transnational and trans-colonial features that are embedded at the core of empire building. Along with cocoa also traveled a set of skills, racial ideologies, labor regimes, and colonial imaginaries that can be traced further back into coffee and Imperial Brazil.
Contact Information:
Name: Lauren Farmer
Phone: 215.571.3797
Email: laf95@drexel.edu
Location:
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 103, 3245 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Graduate Students
  • International Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff
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