Andrea Stuart’s Sugar
in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire, like so many family
histories of and by African Americans (or in the case, African Caribbeans), is
really the story of America. The
kidnapping, enslaving, and abuse of Africans in North and South America is one
of our founding original sins. What it says about power, race, gender, and
capitalism still informs our world today.
Stuart has written a work which explores all this through
the lens of her multi-racial Barbadian family.
Her research into the island’s history gives voice to the voiceless, the
slaves in her background. Barbados and
its people come alive in her prose.
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