Yes, there was a reason that they went to war for Hellen of Troy. The reason were tons over tons of contracts, promises and agreements, that literally forced the whole mainland Greece to help Hellen’s husband return her from Troy.
This chick is dyin’ I ain’t lyin’ This bitch is done multiplyin’ Chuck her ass out the door While I’m flyin’ Won’t catch my eyes Ever dryin’, No cryin’
They were changed from African pygmies in later versions of the book. You can still find early copies which describe them explicitly as such:
Willy Wonka tamped down speculation that he made them of chocolate. “They are real people! They are some of my workers!” He advised the group that these tiny black people had been “Imported direct from Africa!” They belonged to “a tribe of tiny miniature pygmies known as Oompa-Loompas. I discovered them myself. I brought them over from Africa myself—the whole tribe of them, three thousand in all. I found them in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before.
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