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When "Clergyman" wrote his letter, most Vermonters who made maple sugar only produced enough to meet their own families’ needs.
8,280,545 by 1 3/4 gallons =14,490,953 gallons consumption of whites in the Slave States. Notes -- The export price of Domestic Sugar, 1860, was 9 cents; Refined Sugar, exported, about 9 cents.
Sugar is everywhere. Nearly every packet of food sitting on the supermarket shelves or in your home pantry contains processed sugar. And for a lot of people, going a day without consuming sugar ...
Figure caption, Remnants of sugar production on Dominica, a former British colony in the Caribbean Another adverse affect of the slave trade was the damage to the Caribbean economies due to the ...
The Sherman Theatre in Cardiff was looking for stories that spoke to a Welsh audience at the time and representatives contacted Azuka, who felt it was her "call to arms" to explore Wales' links with ...
Led by sugar planter Carlos Manuel de Cespedes ... By 1869, Cespedes had written a constitution that abolished slavery and annexed the country to the United States. Other revolutionary leaders ...