Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… his family 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 … 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 … . Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (London: Penguin, 1978), p. 19-73. 2 . Jon Stobart, Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. …
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