400 Years of Sweetness
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The Haitian Revolution Was a Sugar Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was in many ways a sugar revolution, carried out for liberation from the oppressive, violent life that Europe's insatiable demands for sugar and profit had created. The 18th century French philosopher Voltaire wrote a book called Candide, in which there's an episode where the main character witnesses the horror of a sugar plantation. It is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong," he said.
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