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Fri 11 Nov 2009A stirring tale of the miserable sugar slavery that helped sweeten ordinary lives
FERGUS MULLIGANreviews Sugar: a Bittersweet History By Elizabeth Abbott Duckworth Overlook463pp, £20
MY MOTHER worked for a time in the Cadbury chocolate factory near Liverpool, a city whose prosperity is rooted in the slave trade, and the cloying, sickly sweet smell from the factory was detectable for miles. Cadbury was an enlightened employer, and staff could eat as much chocolate as they liked.
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