Sugar: a bittersweet history

Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the world

The reign of sugar begins

The proletarianization of sugar

Part 2: Black sugar

The Africanization of the cane fields

The world the whites made

Sugar stirs the universe

Part 3: Abolition through resistance and parliament

Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution

Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade

Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship

Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America

Part 4: The sweetening world

The sugar diasporas

Meet and eat me in St. Louis!

Sugar's legacies and prospects

Notes

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Index

Credits.