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Sugar in the Blood : A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart (2013, Trade Paperback)

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Weight: 0.79 lbs. Number of Pages: 384. ISBN10: 0307474542. Publication Date: 2013-10-08. Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group.

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In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story--from the seventeenth century through the present--as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade--"white gold," as it was known--had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family's experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family--its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin--she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307474542
ISBN-13
9780307474544
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160046179

Product Key Features

Book Title
Sugar in the Blood : a Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Author
Andrea Stuart
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Industries / Agribusiness, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Dewey Decimal
338.173610972981
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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