Sugar: A Bittersweet HistorySugar: 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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Page 153
... slaves and had different specifications from other vessels . Slave trading and shipbuilding were integrally linked . Half of Liverpool's sailors worked in the slave trade , and many shipwrights engaged in it with their own ships . The ...
... slaves and had different specifications from other vessels . Slave trading and shipbuilding were integrally linked . Half of Liverpool's sailors worked in the slave trade , and many shipwrights engaged in it with their own ships . The ...
Page 185
... slave trade affected Africa economically . It stimulated the need for a common currency , with cowries and iron bars becoming standard . Slave ports developed services to facilitate the slave trade , which employed many people as ...
... slave trade affected Africa economically . It stimulated the need for a common currency , with cowries and iron bars becoming standard . Slave ports developed services to facilitate the slave trade , which employed many people as ...
Page 225
... slavery and sugar produc- tion , and their narratives were important contributions to abolitionist literature . THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT After centuries of the slave trade and slavery , an English coalition of men and women merged into an ...
... slavery and sugar produc- tion , and their narratives were important contributions to abolitionist literature . THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT After centuries of the slave trade and slavery , an English coalition of men and women merged into an ...
Contents
The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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