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Sugar in the Blood - A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (Paperback, New Ed)
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Sugar in the Blood - A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (Paperback, New Ed)
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In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor
set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to
settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life
of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby's first crop, the
cane revolution was underway and would go on to transform the
Caribbean into an archipelago of riches, establishing a thriving
worldwide industry that bound together ambitious white
entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers. As it grew, this sweet
colonial trade fuelled the Enlightenment and financed the
Industrial Revolution, but it also had more direct, less palatable
consequences for the individuals caught up in it, consequences that
still haunt the author's past. In this unique personal history,
Andrea Stuart follows the thread of her own family's involvement
with sugar through successive generations, telling a story of
insatiable greed and forbidden love, of abuse and liberation.
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