Thanks for posting that, DeeMac. It brings out how horrific sugar growing and manufacture was.

Abolitionists did their best to ensure that the British public knew these things. One of their means of campaign was organising a boycott of West Indian sugar: sympathisers would use honey rather than sugar as sweetener. (The abolitionists have the credit of pioneering the techniques of campaigns of conscience: spreading information, petitions, and organising consumer boycotts even before the word `boycott' came into use.)

There are some things that you read in history that get to you, aren't there? It isn't easy to forget that man with hatchet by the sugar crushers.