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xiii Acknowledgments I am grateful to the many librarians, archivists, colleagues, and friends who have made this book possible. Dorothy Woodson, curator of the African Collection at Yale University, gave me access to the collection of James Duffy’s papers donated by his widow in 2000. They restored to the archival record the set of letters Joseph Burtt wrote to William Cadbury from Africa between 1905 and 1907. Copies of the letters have been deposited in the Cadbury Research Library, Special Collections, at the University of Birmingham, where Helen Fisher and Philippa Bassett assisted me. Sarah Foden gave me access to the small archive still maintained by Cadbury Information Services (now part of Kraft Foods). Two summer Professional Development Awards from the University of Tennessee funded my 2002 visit to Birmingham (I thank Isabel Hackett for her kind hospitality) and my 2003 visit to São Tomé. I am grateful to Augusto Nascimento for introducing me to the staff at the Arquivo Histórico de São Tomé and Príncipe and helping me negotiate the archive at a moment when I was just learning Portuguese. Nascimento and Eugénia Rodrigues (both of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical [IICT]) also graciously hosted me in Lisbon. A 2004 grant from the Luso-American Foundation funded a summer of research at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Helena Grego and Cristina Matias of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, who in 2006 kindly helped me track down numerous references. My debt to Gerhard Seibert of the Centro de Estudos Africanos (ISCTE-IUL) is considerable. Among many favors over the years, he read this manuscript and introduced me to the great-grandson of Francisco Mantero, who shares his name. I thank Kate Burlingham for her research assistance at the Arquivo Histórico Nacional de Angola, as well as the librarians and archivists at the Rhodes House Library at Oxford University; the Biblioteca Nacional, the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, and the Arquivo Histórico Diplomático in Lisbon; and the Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique in Maputo. The University of Tennessee had just granted me a fall 2005 sabbatical and the American Philosophical Society had awarded me a spring 2006 sabbatical fellowship when Kevin Grant’s A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa (2005) and Lowell Satre’s Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the xiv  Acknowledgments Ethics of Business (2005)—both of which explore the controversy over cocoa— were published. In this book, I take a fresh approach, following the advice of Joseph C. Miller and Robert R. Edgar, who encouraged me to write a history of interest to students, scholars, and general readers. I hope I have fulfilled their vision. I thank David Birmingham, William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Douglas L. Wheeler, and Linda Heywood, and also John K. Thornton for his model of a popular history, The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706 (1998). Stephen V. Ash, a friend and a noted historian of the American Civil War, taught me how to write narrative history, and he wore out several red pens commenting on multiple drafts of each of my chapters. Among many other colleagues and friends at the University of Tennessee (present and former), I thank especially Kim Harrison and Anne Galloway, Carolyn Hodges, Ann Jefferson, Nancy Schurr, Dawn Duke, Tina Shepardson, Jay Rubenstein, Robert Bast, Rosalind Hackett, Ernie Freeberg, Tom Burman, David Tompkins, Michael Kulikowski, Todd Diacon, and Moema Furtado. Over the years, I have been supported by friends of long standing, including Kathy Joiner Milburn, Jeff Milburn, Marion Taylor, Glen Taylor, Patricia Behre, James Francis, David Godfrey, Ellen Macek, and Sean Redding. This project has also brought new friends, including Ruth Rogaski, Julianna Munden, Todd Cleveland, Eric Allina, Jeremy Ball, and Denise Perreira. Many have kindly read parts of the manuscript, and I have benefited greatly from their insights and suggestions. Two diligent research assistants, Brad Pardue and Katherine Thompson Newell, helped me proofread the text and check the notes. Will Fontanez, director of the University of Tennessee’s Cartographic Services Laboratory , drew maps 3 and 5. Finally, I thank Gillian Berchowitz of Ohio University Press for her interest in and encouragement of this project. Permission to reprint photographic and archival material was granted as follows: for figure 1, by the Cadbury Archives, Kraft Foods, Birmingham, United Kingdom, courtesy of the William Adlington Cadbury Charitable Trust; for figures...

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