Stories
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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An inquiry into the effects of putting a stop to the African slave trade, And of Granting Liberty to the Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies. By the Author of The Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies.
Ramsay, James, 1733-1789.Date: 1784- Books
Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.
Abbott, Elizabeth, 1953-Date: 2009, ©2008- Books
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Some considerations humbly offer'd upon the bill now depending in the House of Lords, relating to the trade between the Northern Colonies and the Sugar-Islands. In a letter to a noble peer.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The miserable case of the British sugar planters; wherein is contained, some remarks on the poverty, distress, and other difficulties, which they labour under; the advantages of a direct exportation from the sugar islands to Foreign Markets; and the Consequences of losing or preserving our Sugar Colonies are considered; and Some Comparisons are made between the French and the English in Regard to the Sugar Trade. With a Proposal for Relief. By a wellwisher to the trade and navigation o Great-Britain.
Wellwisher to the trade and navigation of Great-Britain.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A state of the British sugar-colony trade; shewing, that an additional duty of twelve shillings per 112 pounds weight may be laid upon brown or muscovado sugar (and proportionably higher Duties upon Sugar refined before imported) without making sugar dearer in this kingdom than it hath been of late Years, and without Distressing the British Sugar-Planters; for their Profits will then be Twice as much Money per Acre of Land, as the Landholders of England receive for their Estates. All which Matters are plainly made appear, and the vast Losses which this Kingdom hath suffered by the Sugar-Colony Trade, within Thirty Years last past, are particularly pointed out. Most humbly submitted to the consideration of the honourable House of Commons. By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]