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Black History Year

The Bitter, Bloody History Of Sugar

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.32.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

After a good meal, we love reaching for something sweet. Sugar is hidden in so many of our foods we don’t even think about it. However, the actual, dark history of the sweetener should definitely be on our minds. _____________ 2-Minute Black History is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The production team for this podcast includes Cydney Smith, Len Webb, and Lilly Workneh. Our editors are Lance John and Avery Phillips from Gifted Sounds Network. Julian Walker serves as executive producer." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can sense to glory.

0:02.0

Is this distorted something?

0:04.0

Feel it in your bones.

0:06.0

The quarterfinals.

0:08.0

Unstappable. Full of vivid nerve-wracking moments

0:10.0

where every decision costs more, means more and makes history.

0:17.0

This is where the season is defined.

0:19.0

Oh, it's matching.

0:20.0

Every game.

0:22.0

Total un Total.

0:23.0

Total.

0:24.0

The U-A-For Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League

0:27.0

Quarterfinals, only on T&T Sports.

0:30.0

After a good meal, we love reaching for something sweet. Sugar is hidden in so many of our foods we don't even think about it.

0:40.0

However, the actual dark history of the sweetener should definitely be on our minds.

0:47.0

This is too many black history, what you didn't learn in school.

0:54.0

In a decaying Brooklyn warehouse stood a giant Sphinx depicted as a mammy,

1:02.0

made from eight tons of confectionery sugar and covered with molasses made resin.

1:08.0

It was artist Carol Walker's way of uncovering the overlooked history of one of the world's bloodiest food secrets.

1:17.0

Our people tirelessly hand cultivated sugar on Southern Caribbean and South American plantations before reaching New England,

1:26.4

mainly Rhode Island, where it was distilled into rum.

1:31.2

Folk barrels were then loaded onto West Africa bound ships where

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