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Sugar in the Blood - A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R269
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Sugar in the Blood - A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (Paperback, New Ed): Andrea Stuart

Sugar in the Blood - A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire (Paperback, New Ed)

Andrea Stuart

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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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Imprint: Granta Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2013
Authors: Andrea Stuart
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 425
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-84627-072-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
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LSN: 1-84627-072-3
Barcode: 9781846270727

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