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When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious... read more
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- Gandhi: Indian who helped improve the lot of Indian sugar workers in Africa.
- Domingue: Add a description of this character.
- Clarkson
- Toussaint
- Bechu
- Jundi Shapur
- Pauline
- Thomas Thistlewood
Setting & Locations edit
- England
- India
- France
- Europe
- Caribbean
- Brazil
- Louisiana
- Haiti
- South Africa
- Jamaica
- Hawaii
- North America
- United States
- Congress
- China
- Egypt
- British Guiana
- Islam
- London
- Barbados
- Paris
- Asia
- Puerto Rico
- Spain
- Atlantic
- Satyagraha
- New York
- Natal
- Persia
- Guyana
- Russia
- Cuba
Authors & Contributors edit
- Marc Aronson (Author)
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Page Count: 166
Publisher: Add the publisher.
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Page Count: 166
Awards edit
- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults (Finalist, January 2012)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 664.109
Subjects edit
- Books › Science › Agricultural Sciences › Food Science
- Books › History › World
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