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.
Catalogue
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Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.
Abbott, Elizabeth, 1953-Date: 2009, ©2008- Books
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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
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Two letters and several calculations on the sugar colonies and trade; addressed to two committees nominated by the West-India merchants, &c. With an appendix: Containing, 1. Four Letters concerning the flourishing Condition, large Extent, and prodigious Increase of the French Sugar Colonies; the Poverty, Weakness and Decay of the British Sugar Colonies; and their vast Importance to the Trade, Navigation, Wealth and Power of this Nation. 2. Some Proposals formerly presented to a Great Minister of State, for the Preservation and Advancement of the British Sugar Colonies, and Interests in the West-Indies: With an Addition of several Notes thereon. By Mr. Bennett, late Agent in the West-Indies, to the South-Sea and Royal Assiento Company of Great Britain; and to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Bennet, John, merchant.Date: 1738- 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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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]