John Cadbury used profits from slavery to create Cadbury’s in 1831. John Cadbury was a Quaker, a pacifist, who never had any direct links to the slave trade. The Quakers just added fuel to the fire by creating outlets for slave trade products, cotton factories, sugar mills. chocolate factories and other businesses.

The Cadbury family became admirable opponents to the abolition of slavery as they continued to enjoy a healthy profit indirectly. Even after the abolition of slavery, in the early 1900s they became embroiled in a scandal of buying cocoa from colonies where forced labour was employed. Like a parasite that cannot release the stranglehold on its victims, Cadbury’s today are still being associated with slave labour production of cocoa.

It is a shame that the infected chocolate is so intoxicatingly delicious that it continues to overpower the taste suffering.

One positive thing about companies like Cadbury’s is that they made an opening for new industries to be created, fair trade industries.