Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire

Andrea Stuart

353 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging emotional informative medium-paced
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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 tim...

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reflective: 75%

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