Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… 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 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), … at the emancipation of slaves. Information about slavery in the West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Keywords Consumption Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Tea … satirical descriptions as a site of unnecessary exotic luxuries, illicit sexuality, scandal mongering, and excess. One print, presumably dating from around 1720, shows a tea-table with six women engaged in conversation, while two men, …
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