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Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom, and science / by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston [Mass.] : Clarion Books, 2010.Description: ix, 166 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780618574926
  • 0618574921
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 664.109
LOC classification:
  • TP378.2 .A767 2010
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Contents:
From magic to spice -- Hell -- Freedom -- Back to our stories : new workers, new sugar.
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Non Fiction MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult B- Nonfiction (Teen/Adult) 664.109 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4000862

Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-[159]) and index.

From magic to spice -- Hell -- Freedom -- Back to our stories : new workers, new sugar.

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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