![]() ![]() Major funding for BackStory is provided by an anonymous donor, the University of Virginia, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.īRIAN: From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, this is BackStory with the American Backstory hosts. ![]() PETER: Today on BackStory, a history of sugar in America. MALE SPEAKER: In 1869, in their private correspondence, Louisiana planters are very explicit about wanting a new slave labor force essentially. And so when the end of slavery stripped sugar planters of their workforce, American sugar barons turned to Asia. ![]() PETER: After the Revolution, sugar continued to be big business in the Atlantic world, on the scale of oil today. They were deeply complicit in the molasses smuggling trade. MALE SPEAKER: We’re talking about major American founding families. It’s a name we tend to associate with the Declaration of Independence, but Hancock first made a name for himself illegally running raw materials for rum, and he wasn’t the only one. ![]()
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