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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... tion of Mansfield's judgment — that he had abolished slavery in England — lent his words even more power . Blacks and abolitionists exulted , and at least fifteen English slaves were freed by judges who cited Somerset as their precedent ...
... tion of Mansfield's judgment — that he had abolished slavery in England — lent his words even more power . Blacks and abolitionists exulted , and at least fifteen English slaves were freed by judges who cited Somerset as their precedent ...
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... tion reinforced by intense spiritual conviction . They rejected centuries of Christian sanction of and involvement in slavery and reinterpreted the fundamental meaning of Christianity and scriptural texts . The simplest and most ...
... tion reinforced by intense spiritual conviction . They rejected centuries of Christian sanction of and involvement in slavery and reinterpreted the fundamental meaning of Christianity and scriptural texts . The simplest and most ...
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... tion coincided with the rise of the price of sugar during the Haitian Revolution and drove 300,000 English people to abstain from West Indian sugar . Wilberforce had clearly erred on the side of caution . James Gillray lampoons the ...
... tion coincided with the rise of the price of sugar during the Haitian Revolution and drove 300,000 English people to abstain from West Indian sugar . Wilberforce had clearly erred on the side of caution . James Gillray lampoons the ...
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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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