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… 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 … and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumer culture Tea Tea-table Domesticity Femininity Slave trade
Boycott Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became more affordable and more common in … and punch. As a popular consumer item, West Indian sugar, which was produced with slave labour, became the target of a
boycott promoted by the 1790s ‘Anti-Saccharite campaign’. The history of sugar made from sugar cane goes back a long way. …