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9780307272836

Sugar in the Blood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780307272836

  • ISBN10:

    0307272834

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2013-01-22
  • Publisher: Knopf
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Summary

From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World-from the seventeenth century to the present-which is, as well, a spellbinding family memoir. Andrea Stuart uses her own family story as the pivot of an epic tale, examining the ways in which the sugar crop cultivated on the island of Barbados created nations, enriched Europe beyond its wildest imaginings, and precipitated the enslavement of the millions of Africans in the Americas. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her own ancestors' experiences, Stuart explores, with subtlety and sensitivity, how this one particular commodity has shaped the destiny of her family-its identity, genealogy, place of origin, varying hues of skin-and how our hunger for it has mobilized forces that converged to shape the world for four centuries and counting.

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