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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston [Mass.] :
Clarion Books,
2010.
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| Summary: | 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 that could finally end the slave trade. This book traces the history of sugar from its origins in New Guinea around 7000 B.C. to its use in the 21st century to produce ethanol. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 166 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Audience: | 009-013. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-[159]) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780618574926 0618574921 |
| Author Notes: | Marc Aronson has won many awards and prizes for his books, including the first Sibert Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for Eldorado. Marina Budhos is an assistant professor of Englishat William Paterson University. She is the author of Ask Me No Questions ,winner of the inaugural James Cook Teen Book Award. She and her husband live with their two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey. |
