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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... Phibbah , a black Creole slave he loved and treated as his wife . It was not love at first sight . Months after arriving at the Egypt sugar estate , Thistlewood flogged Phibbah severely for hiding a slave who had plotted to murder him ...
... Phibbah , a black Creole slave he loved and treated as his wife . It was not love at first sight . Months after arriving at the Egypt sugar estate , Thistlewood flogged Phibbah severely for hiding a slave who had plotted to murder him ...
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... Phibbah did not speak to me all day . ” 2 Early on , Phibbah became this prickly , cruel , hardworking and lonely man's helpmeet . She was his liaison with the slaves . She listened to his concerns and advised him . When slaves were ...
... Phibbah did not speak to me all day . ” 2 Early on , Phibbah became this prickly , cruel , hardworking and lonely man's helpmeet . She was his liaison with the slaves . She listened to his concerns and advised him . When slaves were ...
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... Phibbah and Thistlewood had a child , Mulatto John , whom the Copes manumitted . Thistlewood acknowledged his son and helped Phibbah raise him . He bought John books , scolded him about undone homework and reproached Phibbah for ...
... Phibbah and Thistlewood had a child , Mulatto John , whom the Copes manumitted . Thistlewood acknowledged his son and helped Phibbah raise him . He bought John books , scolded him about undone homework and reproached Phibbah for ...
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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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