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 218
... Haitians would be considered black , even whites who embraced the new nation's vision.391 The Haitian Revolution was the ultimate resistance to slavery and had profound consequences . It hastened the abolition of the slave trade . It ...
... Haitians would be considered black , even whites who embraced the new nation's vision.391 The Haitian Revolution was the ultimate resistance to slavery and had profound consequences . It hastened the abolition of the slave trade . It ...
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... Haiti's exit from the sugar market transformed Cuba into a sugar slavocracy . Until the Haitian Revolution , most of Cuba's 85,000 slaves were domestics or city workers . By 1827 , there were 286,942 slaves , and by 1841 there were ...
... Haiti's exit from the sugar market transformed Cuba into a sugar slavocracy . Until the Haitian Revolution , most of Cuba's 85,000 slaves were domestics or city workers . By 1827 , there were 286,942 slaves , and by 1841 there were ...
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... Haitians to cut his cane . The Dominican government bribed Haiti's usually dictatorial presidents to supply Haitian ... Haitian dicta- tor Jean - Claude Duvalier , or Baby Doc , was expelled from Haiti . Since then , if enough Haitians ...
... Haitians to cut his cane . The Dominican government bribed Haiti's usually dictatorial presidents to supply Haitian ... Haitian dicta- tor Jean - Claude Duvalier , or Baby Doc , was expelled from Haiti . Since then , if enough Haitians ...
Contenido
The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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