Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… grew from 4.01 lb per capita in 1698-99 to 23.02 lb in 1770-1779. 2 Sugar, a labour-intensive crop, was produced in the colonies with extensive use of slave labour. The historian of sugar Sidney Mintz has described sugar plantations as ‘a …
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