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portada Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781846270727

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir (in English)

Andrea Stuart (Author) · Granta Books · Paperback

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir (in English) - Andrea Stuart

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Synopsis "Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir (in English)"

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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