Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… Image James Gillray, ‘Anti-saccharites, -or- John Bull and his family leaving off the use of sugar’, British Museum Satires, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings, 8074, 1792. Image ‘The Tea-Table’, © The Trustees of the British Museum … and children abstained from sugar (Stobart 46). Consumers were alerted to the brutality of the sugar production through satire, too. James Gillray's print ‘ Barbarities in the West Indias ‘ (1791) depicts a gruesome scene in a boiling house …
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