In her new book, Sugar in the Blood, Andrea Stuart weaves her family story around the history of slavery and sugar in Barbados. Stuart's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather ...
For hundreds of years, sugar cane has been the leading cash crop of Barbados. From the air, tourists can see expansive fields of neatly-sown rows blanketing the countryside. In colonial Barbados, ...