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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... million . Of the eleven million transported to foreign slavery , sugar consumed by far the most : six million.109 Those Africans entered the cane fields profoundly scarred by the Middle Passage , their ocean journey from Africa to New ...
... million . Of the eleven million transported to foreign slavery , sugar consumed by far the most : six million.109 Those Africans entered the cane fields profoundly scarred by the Middle Passage , their ocean journey from Africa to New ...
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... million to £ 70 million.283 To support his hypothesis , Williams noted Pitt the Younger's 1798 estimate that the annual income from the West Indian plantations was £ 4 million , and that all other sources together totaled only £ 1 million ...
... million to £ 70 million.283 To support his hypothesis , Williams noted Pitt the Younger's 1798 estimate that the annual income from the West Indian plantations was £ 4 million , and that all other sources together totaled only £ 1 million ...
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... million on presidential and congressional electoral campaigns , millions more on local ones and at least $ 26 million in Florida to subvert attempts to require sugar growers to pay for the cleanup . One beneficiary was Jeb Bush ...
... million on presidential and congressional electoral campaigns , millions more on local ones and at least $ 26 million in Florida to subvert attempts to require sugar growers to pay for the cleanup . One beneficiary was Jeb Bush ...
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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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