The history of sugar continues to exercise great curiosity among scholars. In large part, this stems from the centrality of different forms of sweetness in the history of human taste and diet over the centuries. Sugar lies firmly at the centre of some of mankind’s most challenging topics – most notably the history of slavery and slave trading. It is hard to consider the story of the global demand for sugar cane without understanding the transportation of millions of enslaved Africans into the Americas. And, not surprisingly, the broader story of mankind’s global addiction to sweet drinks and foodstuffs has Read more