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Sugar is sweet but its history says otherwise

In Roald Dahl’s 1964 classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, readers are introduced to a fantastical world of confections. Beneath this sugary paradise, however, lay the dark underbelly of slavery (rampant in the European colonies of the 19th century), represented in the Oompa Loompas, whom Wonka proudly introduces as real people, “imported from the deepest and darkest part of the African jungle” to work in his factory in exchange for cocoa beans.