Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… Wilberforce , to introduce a bill to abolish the slave trade. If petitioning was one major form of protest on the abolitionists' side, there was yet another, in which women, who decided on their family's consumption of food, played a … campaign, which began to take off in the 1780s and gained momentum in 1791 after Parliament had rejected the abolition bill. Central to this campaign was William Fox's pamphlet An Address to the People of Great Britain, on the … argument, the print pokes fun at the frugality she famously practised. It also emphasises women's activities within the abolitionist movement. If some consumers turned to East India sugar, others abstained entirely because it was impossible …
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