Jacqueline Grant Kent
Autore di The Not-So-Sweet History of Caribbean Sugar (The Caribbean Reference Shelf)
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Fonte dell'immagine: Jacqueline Grant Kent
Opere di Jacqueline Grant Kent
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- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 70
- Popolarità
- #248,179
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 32
- ISBN
- 9
“The Not-So-Sweet History of Caribbean Sugar” is a middle-grade reader describing the relationship between sugar production and slavery in the Caribbean.
It gives a good description of the production methods and the personal costs to slaves of the process. It doesn’t quite convey the significance of sugar to the purchasing economies.
I road-tested this book on a pair of well-read 10-year-olds. They found it informative but not greatly engaging.… (altro)