ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Codrington Baronets, Hispaniola, British Sugar

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Anthrop 1aa3 - lecture #27 - big sugar (film) In america they pay 3x as much for sugar. Billions of dollars go towards big sugar. Some say there should be no subsidizing of a luxury crop like sugar, that has no nutritional value. The production of sugar also has negative environmental impacts, in the. Lisa codrington is looking for proof that she is descended from slaves (finds that her great-great-grandparents were slaves of the codrington family) Very wealthy man named codrington in the 1700s donated money to colleges and libraries. Became very wealthy from the sugar industry. All sugar cultivation was done by slaves. Codrington was a terrible slave owner, who had children with many of his slaves - if their husbands tried to protect them, he would have them hunted down. After he died, he willed all his slaves to the church of england, who branded all their slaves with the word "society"

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