Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… was firmly established. The rising consumption of sugar together with tea is closely linked to material culture, to the fashion of china. The import of china, first brought from Asia, later locally produced in Britain, was accompanied by the … sentiment was growing in Britain towards the end of the eighteenth century. Combining political statement with fashionable sentiment, William Cowper's poem ‘ Pity for Poor Africans ‘ (1788), which explicitly links the slave trade …
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