No sugar coating
Jan 14, 2022
3 minutes
By Nesrine Malik
The word Demerara may mean little to you, other than being the name of a large-grained golden brown sugar. But Demerara is a place, or it was. Now called Guyana, Demerara was, in the 19th century, a British colony of sugar plantations. It was one of the most lucrative colonies, owing to the high yield of the land and high productivity of the enslaved people who worked on it
The enslaved outnumbered the white colonists significantly, and had
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