Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… 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 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. … Charlotte Sussman, ‘Women and the Politics of Sugar‘, Representations (vol. 48, 1994), p. 48-69, p.51. It was a call to boycott slave-grown sugar. Fox appealed to the consumers' moral awareness: ‘The slave-dealer, the slave-holder, and the …
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