by James Walvin
Florida sugar industry, 166–70
food imports, 98–100
Louisiana acquisition, 107, 147–8
Louisiana sugar industry, 147- 52, 163
rum consumption, 106–7, 113–14
slavery in Southern states, 59, 148- 53
social importance of sugar, 107–8
sugar and politics, 146–7, 171–2, 237–8, 289
sugar-beet industry, 145–7
sugar consumption, 87, 128–9
wartime restrictions, 163–6
Vanuatu, 126
Venice, 80
Victoria, Queen, 135
Victorian dead, 21–2 ‘violet sugar’, 9
Walkers Crisps, 210
Wall Street Crash, 165
water supplies, 256–7
Weatherley, Henry, 175
wedding cakes, 135–6
Wedgwood, Josiah, 70–1
West Africa
rum consumption, 112, 116–17
sugar plantations, 60
Westminster Abbey, 14
whisky, 110, 113
White, Dr Sandra, 28
Wilhelm III, King of Prussia, 143
Wilson, Woodrow, 164
windmills, 104
wine, 31, 110, 112, 116
Winthrop, John, 90
Wolsey, Thomas, 14
Woodruff, Robert, 252, 255, 266
Wootton, Thomas, 67
Worcester porcelain, 70
World Bank, 227
World Health Organization
(WHO), 189, 198, 203, 269
World Trade Organisation, 227
Yankee Stadium, 195
York, 64, 68
Zululand, annexation of, 125
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Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits
Different Times: Growing Up in Post-War England
Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave:
Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
Atlas of Slavery
Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire
Questioning Slavery
An African’s Life:
The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745–1797
Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora
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