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Tom Zoellner

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how a lone woman s consumer boycott pushed the british towards abolishing slavery

How a Lone Woman's Consumer Boycott Pushed the British Towards Abolishing Slavery

If people must have the “sweet dust,” Elizabeth Heyrick said, they should at least make sure it was grown in Britain’s colonies in the East Indies – Bengal and Malaya – where cane-field labourers were impoverished but at least technically free.