Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryPenguin Canada, 2008 - 453 páginas Sugar: A Bittersweet History offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. It is a revealing look at how sugar changed the nature of meals, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, generated a brutal new form of slavery, and jumpstarted the fast-food revolution. |
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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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