OH MY GOODNESS! What a fascinating book. I learned so much about how the growing and harvest of sugar cane really did shape our world. Did you know that of the million of slaves taken from Africa only 4% were sent to North America, the rest were sent to the sugar cane fields of the Caribbean. Being taken to work on a sugar farm was essentially a death sentence because the work was so hard. Today, we get a lot of our sugar from other sources like sugar beets, or high fructose corn syrup but we need to remember those that lost their lives to bring sugar to the world.
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