In Angola's Colossal Lie. Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, 1913-1977 Jeremy Ball explains how forced labor produced enormous profits at one of colonial Angola's largest agro-industrial enterprises. Using oral histories and a never before accessed company archive, Ball describes how Angolan experienced and remember forced labor.

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.