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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Main Author: Aronson, Marc
Other Authors: Budhos, Marina Tamar
Language:English
Published: Boston [Mass.] : Clarion Books, [2010]
Series:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:
Sugar > History > Juvenile literature.
Sugar trade > History > Juvenile literature.
Slavery > History > Juvenile literature.
Liberty > History > Juvenile literature.
Passive resistance > History > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Juvenile literature.
Physical Description:ix, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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Summary:
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.
Call Number:664.10 Aronson
NFYA
Audience:
1130L Lexile
Interest Age Level:
009-013.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-[159]) and index.
ISBN:9780618574926 (hc)
0618574921
Reading Program:
Accelerated Reader UG 8.0 5 5 140767