Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom, and science

Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom, and science / by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos.

Author/creator	Aronson, Marc
Other author/creator	Budhos, Marina Tamar.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Boston [Mass.] : Clarion Books, 2010.
Description	ix, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Sugar--History --Juvenile literature. Sugar trade--History --Juvenile literature. Slavery--History --Juvenile literature. Liberty--History --Juvenile literature. Passive resistance--History --Juvenile literature. Sugar--History. Sugar trade--History. Slavery--History. Liberty--History. Passive resistance--History.

Contents	pt. 1. From magic to spice -- pt. 2. Hell -- pt. 3. Freedom -- pt. 4. Back to our stories : new workers, new sugar.
Abstract	Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. This book traces the history of sugar from its origins in New Guinea around 7000 B.C. to its use in the 21st century to produce ethanol.
Local note	Little-354859--305131034356Y
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-[159]) and index.
Interest age level	009-013.
LCCN	2009033579
ISBN	9780618574926
ISBN	0618574921

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