Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… 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 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), 369584001, c. 1720. Image James Gillray, 'Barbarities … Abstract In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was coded as domestic and feminine. The production of sugar was closely linked to transatlantic slavery, as …
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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