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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... DOMESTIC SLAVES Domestic slaves worked in the Great House , on the periphery of the quarters . Most lighter - skinned women , some their master's own progeny , were domestics . So were favored or talented blacks , an adept cook or a ...
... DOMESTIC SLAVES Domestic slaves worked in the Great House , on the periphery of the quarters . Most lighter - skinned women , some their master's own progeny , were domestics . So were favored or talented blacks , an adept cook or a ...
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... domestics who were as integral to that way of life as the slaves in the cane fields . Unlike visitors , domestics were expert witnesses with intimate knowledge of their subjects . Domestics were such ubiquitous and familiar presences ...
... domestics who were as integral to that way of life as the slaves in the cane fields . Unlike visitors , domestics were expert witnesses with intimate knowledge of their subjects . Domestics were such ubiquitous and familiar presences ...
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... domestics heard that feeding slaves was an expense planters begrudged and tried to minimize . They heard how apprehensive and angry whites were about slave uprisings and attacks , and how greatly they feared their own treacherous domestics ...
... domestics heard that feeding slaves was an expense planters begrudged and tried to minimize . They heard how apprehensive and angry whites were about slave uprisings and attacks , and how greatly they feared their own treacherous domestics ...
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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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