Sugar changed the world a story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom, and science
Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool...
Main Author: | Aronson, Marc. |
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Other Authors: | Budhos, Marina Tamar. |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Boston [Mass.] :
Clarion Books,
2010.
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