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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... Negroes in them increased , for each sugar mill using water requires at least eighty Negroes , and the sugar - mills using horses , thirty or forty . " 42 The original plan to import only blacks enslaved on Spanish territory was quickly ...
... Negroes in them increased , for each sugar mill using water requires at least eighty Negroes , and the sugar - mills using horses , thirty or forty . " 42 The original plan to import only blacks enslaved on Spanish territory was quickly ...
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... Negroes rather than these poor creatures ! " 48 In Barbados , planter William Dickson recalled , the indentured servants were “ stinted in their diet , and otherwise ill treated . ” 49 In a peti- tion to Parliament in 1659 , begging for ...
... Negroes rather than these poor creatures ! " 48 In Barbados , planter William Dickson recalled , the indentured servants were “ stinted in their diet , and otherwise ill treated . ” 49 In a peti- tion to Parliament in 1659 , begging for ...
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... Negroes have Starved , the same has happn'd in Nevis .... Antigua has lost above a thousand Negroes , Montserrat near twelve Hundred & some Whites - Nevis three or four Hundred , & [ St. Kitts ] as many from the Want of Provisions ...
... Negroes have Starved , the same has happn'd in Nevis .... Antigua has lost above a thousand Negroes , Montserrat near twelve Hundred & some Whites - Nevis three or four Hundred , & [ St. Kitts ] as many from the Want of Provisions ...
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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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