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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... Gang ; a less weary Second Gang slave might find herself toiling in the Great Gang . The Third Gang , if there was one , would include adolescents and slaves too old or debilitated to keep up with the demands of the Great and Second gangs ...
... Gang ; a less weary Second Gang slave might find herself toiling in the Great Gang . The Third Gang , if there was one , would include adolescents and slaves too old or debilitated to keep up with the demands of the Great and Second gangs ...
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... gangs to assist . Jobbing gangs were owned or co - owned by white settlers engaged in slave rental , or by small farmers looking to make money between harvests . In a brutal system , they were the hardest - worked and the most abused ...
... gangs to assist . Jobbing gangs were owned or co - owned by white settlers engaged in slave rental , or by small farmers looking to make money between harvests . In a brutal system , they were the hardest - worked and the most abused ...
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... Gang , collecting grass , tending livestock and doing other chores . As they matured and grew , planters or overseers assigned them to adult work gangs . It was not unheard of to send twelve - year - old girls into the cane fields . An ...
... Gang , collecting grass , tending livestock and doing other chores . As they matured and grew , planters or overseers assigned them to adult work gangs . It was not unheard of to send twelve - year - old girls into the cane fields . An ...
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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