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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

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When this award-winning husband-and-wife team found out that they each and every had sugar of their circle of relatives history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to are seeking for out the voices of people who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe’s Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar used to be the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the lack of countless lives however it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom within the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Time line, source notes, bibliography, and index included.


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