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 … 8 The British tea-table could stand for polite and refined domestic sociability, a place for the immediate circle of the family, who participated in the drinking of tea. It could also be at the centre of middle-class families' social … 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 considerable role: the so-called Anti-Saccharite campaign, which began to take off …
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