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

from kaitanya64

Stuart uses her own family's history to tell the story of race, slavery and sugar in Barbados from the 17th century to the WW II period. The focus on one family does make one feel as if a lot of the historical background is being skimmed. But, the central purpose of the book is to illustrate aspe...

from nmele

Andrea Stuart manages to fit a history of her family, the colonization of the Caribbean and the growth of sugar cultivation and slavery in a beautifully-written 300 pages. I began this book a week or so after finishing Adam Hochschild's "Bury the Chains", a history of the British abolitionist mov...

from FriStar7406

Like a good piece of cake you can't put down. Reads without efforts. Andrea Stuart takes us thru 3 periods of her family's History; The Pioneer, The Plantocrat and The legacy. With her writing we can live her ancestors' day to day lives. Since she is a descendant from a mix of a master with his s...

from DeltaQueen50

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart tells the story of her family's history, and in doing so, the history of the island of Barbados. As a colony of England it's main purpose was agriculture and many different crops were tried, but when sugar was planted, it...

from bobbieharv

I'd expected more of a memoir - found this interesting, but a little dry. At least I know a lot more about the history of Barbados now, and I appreciate the horrific conditions that made the rich white men rich.