Andrea Stuart – Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s History of Slavery and Empire

Author Andrea Stuart unpacks her family story, which is inextricably woven into the history of the sugar trade in the Caribbean.October 17, 2013 – Hour 2

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Author Andrea Stuart talks about her book Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s History of Slavery and Empire. Stuart’s riveting book details the history of both sides – black and white, master and slave – of her Caribbean family, dating back to a sugar plantation in the 1630s.

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