![]() ![]() In the 1964 book, Wonka explains that he found the Oompa-Loompas “in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before.” They were near starvation, living on vile caterpillars, so Wonka smuggled them to England for their own good. ![]() Dahl, on the other hand, apparently saw nothing wrong with Oompa-Loompas-depicted as African pygmy people-being locked up forever in the factory where they supplied all the labor for Willy Wonka’s chocolate empire. The chocolate makers at least worked to distance themselves from slavery. Cocoa plantations that supplied Cadbury and other chocolate makers used enslaved labor. Wonka explains that he found the Oompa-Loompas “in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before.”Įplett writes that one real-life parallel Dahl apparently did not intend involved labor practices. ![]()
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