Sugar In The Blood Book Review

Somewhere in all of our family stories is a George Ashby, the author says of the ancestor whose migration started her on her own journeyAnd shamefulStuart is on more solid ground in the book's second half, when "identifiable" slave forebears begin to emerge.more flag Like see review Barbados had been uninhabited, so it was truly virgin land--swampy, dense, jungle virgin land

Written by a noted author whose family is from Barbados, "Sugar in the Blood" uses the history of one branch of the family to explore how "sugar, slavery, and settlement made and shaped the life experiences of our ancestors, and our world today." A very distant This is the best book that I've read so far in 2013While Stuart doesn't quite match Isabel Wilkerson's brilliance, the book is nevertheless extremely I just finished reading Andrea Stuart's Sugar In The Blood, an extremely well written work of non-fiction that attempts to tell the story of her family, interwoven with the harsh realities of colonialism and slavery in BarbadosThe slaves of the West Indies built this wealth while unaware of its existence, or of their own connection to itSugar then would have come from India, and like other rare spices from that part of the world, it was used sparinglyThe family which began with a white British settler evolved to a multiracial entity of which Stuart is the latest generationThank you for subscribingSince that time May 11, 2013 Alisa rated it it was amazing It's rare for a book to impact me as strongly as Andrea Stuart's Sugar in the BloodBut 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 continentsOne of Stuart's ancestors, Robert Cooper Ashby, had several relationships with slave women and fathered numerous children

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 In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuarts earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in BarbadosDenis Jan 14, 2015 Christie Swentko rated it it was amazing Shelves: slavery-ashby-trans-atlantic-slav I thought this book was very well written, very informative and not only opened your eyes to the early start of slavery in Barbados but also made you feel as though you were there experiencing it with her family to the bitter endRead a Sample Click to the right or left of the sample to turn the pagePeople can get brutish quickly in the absence of weekly servicesI also found particularly interesting the discussion of the emigration of many Barbadians to the American colonies and the influence they exerted particularly in South Carolina in recreating the plantation system on the mainland, which was doubly interesting considering the position of SC as perhaps the spiritual heartland of the American Civil Warplot), which is necessary to give the reader an understanding of time and place for the first English settlers to Barbados, one of whom was Stuart's ancestral grandfather (a white man from England)Today's PaperSubscribe Continue reading the main story Were interested in your feedback on this pageA person can develop an addiction to sweetness and, in this case, create "acceptable" excuses for the slavery that helps it to prosper.I was initially confounded by the book because the author's agenda appeared to be all over the place

She quotes Lthow wrong I wasThe history of the Caribbean barely gets a mention in textbooks, and we never hear about it on the news unless there's a hurricaneThe attitudes about race our own forefathers developed during this time reside in us todayAnd, to an extent, he was rightSections Home Search Skip to content Skip to navigation View mobile version The New York Times Sunday Book ReviewMasters and Slaves Search Subscribe Now Log In 0 Settings Close search Site Search Navigation Search NYTimes.com Clear this text input Go LoadingAlfred A d53ff467a2

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