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   Chocolate: A Contemporary Confection | 1750—1910 Obtaining Cacao— EUROPEANS and AMERICANS PURCHASED cacao and sugar from PLANTATIONS  Hardships continued long after slavery’s end.For more than two centuries, enslaved people had labored to produce crops in lands colonized by European nations. Although slavery was abolished in all countries by 1888, the need for labor to meet the demand for products like sugar and cacao continued. In some tropical countries, harsh labor conditions prevailed long after the end of slavery.  Some activists in the world of chocolate worked to improve conditions.In 1910, William Cadbury (the famous chocolate manufacturer) invited several English and American chocolate companies to join him in refusing to buy cacao from plantations characterized by harsh working conditions until things improved. That same year, a United States Congressional hearing resulted in a formal U.S. ban on any cocoa shown to be the product of slave labor from these plantations. Continue to Making Chocolate |
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