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with Phys.Ed.  \n# Slaves to Chocolate\n\nContinued from the cover  \nlike conditions on cacao planta-tions in the West African nationof Ivory Coast (Côte d'Tvoire)to harvest the cacao (ka-KAY-oh)bean,the main ingredient inchocolate.(Cocoa,a choco-late powder,is also made fromcacao beans.)  \nAly Diabate,from the countryof Mali,was 12 years old when aslave trader promised him $150and a bicycle for working on a  \ncacao farm in Ivory Coast,where 43 percentof the world's cacao is grown.Instead,Alywas sold for about $35 to a cacao farmer,whoregularly beat the boy with a bicycle chainand branches from a cacao tree.\"The beat-ings were part of my life,\"Aly told a reporterfor Knight Ridder Newspapers in 2001,afterhe was freed by local authorities and returnedto his Mali village.  \nAly described 12-hour days working inscorching heat.To get the 400 beans it takesto make about a pound of chocolate,Aly andthe other boys he worked with needed tohack ten pods from cacao trees with  \n■ Originally,chocolate wasanything but a sweet treat.t was a very bitter drinkfirst drunk by the ancientOlmec(1200-600 B.C.)and later the Maya(A.D.  \n250-900),who occupied what are nowparts of southern Mexico and CentralAmerica.The drink was made from thecrushed beans of the cacao tree nativeto Central and South America.It wasmost often flavored with chilipeppers.The drink played a major rolein Mayan religion and culture.The Mayaeven had a cacao god.  \n■Christopher Columbus was the firstEuropean to come in contact with cacaobeans.In 1502,on his fourth and lastvoyage,Columbus's ship came upona large canoe off the coast ofwhat is now Honduras.Thecanoe was filled with goodsfor trading,includingmany cacao beans,which were used asmoney by the localinhabitants.No recordsindicate whetherColumbus tasted  \nmachetes.They then sliced open the pods,scooped out the seeds,or beans,placed themin heaps,and covered them so that the beanscould ferment for about seven to ten days.Then the beans were dried in the sun andloaded into bags to be sold and shipped tochocolate manufacturers around the world forprocessing into chocolate products.  \nBecause of his age and small size,Alystruggled to carry the large sacks of cacaobeans.“Anytime they loaded you with bagsand you fell while carrying them,nobodyhelped you.Instead,they beat you again untilyou picked up [the bag]again.”  \nAt the end of the day,Aly and the others  \nthe beans.  \n■The Spanish soldier HernandoCortés,who conquered the Aztecempire(1400s-1521)in what is nowcentral Mexico,observed thatMontezuma(below),the ruler of theAztecs,consumed 50 “flagons”(glasses)of chocolate a day.Cortéstried the drink.He found it much toobitter for his taste but recommended it toKing Carlos l of Spain as a \"drink thatbuilds up resistance and fights fatigue.\"  \nThe first recorded shipment of cacaobeans to Europe was made in 1585from Mexico to the Spanish city ofSeville.Once chocolate entered Europe,however,it underwent vast changes,themost important of which was replacingchili peppers with sugar.Soon sugared  \nchocolate drinks became the rage  \nthroughout Europe among thoserich enough to afford them.  \n■Cacao soon became a hugecash crop.Not until the 1800s,however,was a processdeveloped to convert cacaointo chocolate candy andcocoa powder to flavor cakes  \n□ Chocolate bars areput on trays after theycome out of a coolingmachine at a chocolatefactory in Berkeley,California.The UnitedStates is the biggestconsumer of cacaoproducts in the world.  \nwere locked in a windowless room to sleeponwooden boards.On good days,they ateburned bananas and corn paste.A tin canserved as their toilet.  \nAs chocolate is not part of the traditionalAfrican diet,Aly has never tasted the fruits ofhis labor.\"I don't even know what chocolateis,\"he said.  \nModern-Day Slavery  \nThe U.S.State Department says about  \n15,000 children between the ages of 9 and 12have been sold into forced labor on cotton,coffee,and cacao plantations in Ivory 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