Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire - Hardcover

Stuart, Andrea

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ISBN 10: 1846270715 ISBN 13: 9781846270710

Verlag: Portobello Books Ltd, 2012

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The transformation of ordinary Englishmen into the masters of sugar plantations where African slaves toiled is a familiar enough story, but it has rarely been fleshed out with so much biographical detail, or indeed, told by a descendant as elegant as Stuart ... Her's is a captivating story --The Times

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In the late 1640s, 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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• Verlag: Portobello Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846270715
• ISBN 13: 9781846270710
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336