When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history; they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those 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 was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in 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; index.
#2718133 in Books 2013-04-14Original language:English 9.00 x .64 x 6.00l; #File Name: 0615803636284 pages
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful. africans before slavery and the slave tradeBy Mugisa Rathael Fambrovery good information on the african presence in the america's before slavery and the slave trade. main stream and academia; have ignored; misinformed; distorted; and lied; about africans for too long. very good scholarly work.3 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Total Afrocentric trash by a racist anti-Native American pseudo academic who's been trying to claim for many years that Native ABy An interested customerShould be awarded no stars. Total Afrocentric trash by a racist anti-Native American pseudo academic who's been trying to claim for many years that Native Americans created nothing unless they learned it from African visitors alleged to be culturally superior. Complete garbage based on no evidence or evidence that's been manipulated to serve a pseudo-academic agenda.
