Tag: slavery
Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in 19th Century Puerto Rico
by Luis A. Figueroa From the publisher: The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. […]
Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820-1860
by Richard Follett From the publisher: Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana’s antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style […]
Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar
by Carl Plasa From the publisher: Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of […]
Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880
by John C. Rodrigue From the publisher: In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave […]
Black Labor, White Sugar: a history of the Cuban sugarcane industry
by Philip A. Howard From the publisher: Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions […]
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science
by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos From the publisher: When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the […]
Enslaved children’s diet in 1850s Virginia
Educator Booker T. Washington, who spent his first nine years as an enslaved child in Virginia, wrote in his autobiographies about how the uncertainty of being fed breakfast led to […]
Sugar: The World Corrupted From Slavery to Obesity
by James Walvin From the publisher: How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet […]
Bound to the Fire: the history of enslaved cooks who helped invent American cuisine
by Kelley Fanto Deetz From the publisher: In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of “Aunt Jemima” and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found […]