Blood-Stained Sugar: Gender, Commerce and the British Slave-Trade Debates.
Consumed most visibly at the tea table, slave-grown sugar symbolized the corrupting influence the ‘world of goods’ might have on consumers, especially women. This article examines the influence of contemporary debates about gender and commerce on the boycott of slave-grown sugar. In response to Will...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 611 - 629 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2014
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