Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… time when the tea-table was coded as domestic and feminine. The production of sugar was closely linked to transatlantic slavery, as documented in James Grainger's georgic poem The Sugar Cane (1764). The 1790s saw a major sugar boycott, in which female consumers participated and which aimed at the emancipation of slaves. Information about slavery in the West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & … Domesticity and Gender in the Eighteenth Century‘, Journal of Design History (vol. 21, no. 3, 2008), p. 205-221. Anti-slavery sentiment was growing in Britain towards the end of the eighteenth century. Combining political statement with …
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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