Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryDuckworth Overlook, 2009 - 453 páginas In 'Sugar', Elizabeth Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar & tells its extraordinary story, from its origins in the South Pacific, to the way it transformed eating habits in the 19th century, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, & generated a brutal new form of slavery & colonial oppression in the developing world. |
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Página 123
... Creole men " ate like cormorants and drink like porpoises , " Nugent wrote.218 Janet Schaw , a well - connected and wealthy Scot who in 1774 paid a lengthy visit to Antigua and surrounding islands , initially shared Nugent's reactions ...
... Creole men " ate like cormorants and drink like porpoises , " Nugent wrote.218 Janet Schaw , a well - connected and wealthy Scot who in 1774 paid a lengthy visit to Antigua and surrounding islands , initially shared Nugent's reactions ...
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... Creole woman , referring to the cool air , told Nugent , " Yes , ma - am , him rail - ly too fra - ish . " 264 When attended by slave midwives as they gave birth , Creoles incorporated African fetishes into the proce- dure . They ...
... Creole woman , referring to the cool air , told Nugent , " Yes , ma - am , him rail - ly too fra - ish . " 264 When attended by slave midwives as they gave birth , Creoles incorporated African fetishes into the proce- dure . They ...
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... Creole Society in Jamaica , p . 299 . 221. Quoted in McDonald , Between Slavery and Freedom , p . 222. Nugent , Lady Nugent's Journal , p . 66 . 223. Lewis , Journal of a West India Proprietor , pp . 81 , 209 , 82 . 224. Ibid . , P. 55 ...
... Creole Society in Jamaica , p . 299 . 221. Quoted in McDonald , Between Slavery and Freedom , p . 222. Nugent , Lady Nugent's Journal , p . 66 . 223. Lewis , Journal of a West India Proprietor , pp . 81 , 209 , 82 . 224. Ibid . , P. 55 ...
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The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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