How did the movement against slave-grown sugar go from the actions of a few to a protest of the masses? As a scholar of Quakers and the antislavery movement, I argue in my book ...

American sugar’s growth in the 1830s was a potent mix of high finance, government support, and slave labor. The story of one enslaved Virginian — Sam Watts — leads far beyond the South.

Jane Austens novels depict a world of tea, cakes, and polite society, but the sweetness of that world was underpinned by the ...

In 1654 Dutch soldiers expelled from Northeast Brazil arrived in Barbados with their slaves – and their knowledge of sugar. By 1667 there were 745 mostly British owners of sugar plantations in ...

In her new book, Sugar in the Blood, Andrea Stuart weaves her family story around the history of slavery and sugar in Barbados.Stuart's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather ...

Before cotton, sugar established American reliance on slave labor PBS NewsHour | Sugar, slavery and 'commitment to truth' in U.S. history | Season 2019 | PBS Skip to Main Content ...

In addition to abolishing slavery, our president-to-be saw in maple sugar a way to further cut ties with England and become more economically self-sufficient. Jefferson even planted a grove of ...

Anti-slavery activists demanded a boycott of slave-produced sugar, and reworked their favorite recipes to use honey and maple syrup. Sugar boycotts didn’t overturn slavery.

Moore moved to the front of the steps and faced the crowd gathered for an evening vigil in honor of the “Sugar Land 95.” Each of the candles they held, now glimmering in the settling darkness ...

For 18th-century Quakers, it led them to abstain from sugar and other goods produced by enslaved people. ... How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest slavery Uncategorized.

Quaker Benjamin Lay also published his thoughts about slavery.He also refused to dine with slaveholders, to be served by slaves or to eat sugar. Lay also dressed in coarse clothes.