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“The true age of sugar had begun, and it was doing more to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done.” / “As production grew and the market increased, the craze for the sweetener gradually trickled down from elites to the laboring poor../the single most important addition to the British working class diet.”

“Black women have always embodied if only in their physical manifestation, an adversary stance to White male rule and have actively resisted its end roads upon them and their communities, in both dramatic and subtle ways.” These women are not sexually licentious, they are victims, and the horrors depicted in this chapter makes my heart and blood boil.

Also, how ironic a part of Virginia was named Point Comfort.

“The extremity of the violence was a symptom of the psychological mechanism necessary to absolve white Americans of their country’s original sin.. They held up a mirror into which the nation preferred not to peer..Black people have seen the worst in America, yet still somehow believe in its best.”

“She is Yuca from the world before, not Emily from now.”

Absolute chills, and so telling of today.

“But having a terrestrial and not a celestial origin, we find no difficulty in ascertaining its meaning, in all the parts which we allege relate to slavery.”

“The simple truth is that most Americans know about the 300-year history of slavery in mainland North America, with respect to peoples of African descent…to argue otherwise among professional historians, is now widely understood to be anachronistic and ahistorical..still wedded to a mythology of our founders as unimpeachable heroes and our founding as divine event.”, can’t wait to read, evocative preface!