Chocolate and Africa

By |2017-06-21T01:09:55+00:00June 21st, 2017|Africa, Economy, Food|

A white man beating an enslaved African man in Brazil As more and more people wanted chocolate, farmers had to grow more and more cocoa beans. By 1677, Spanish land-owners were buying West African people to farm cocoa beans as slaves, first in Brazil, and then in Venezuela. Gradually during the 1600s Europeans [...]