Toni Sweets A Brief American History With Nat Turner Updated Review

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News of the rebellion reached New Orleans by steamboat within three weeks. The reaction in the sugar parishes was immediate and violent. If the "respectable" slaveholders of Virginia could be butchered in their sleep, what was to stop the 100,000 enslaved people in Louisiana—outnumbering whites three to one in some sugar districts—from doing the same? toni sweets a brief american history with nat turner

| Year | Event | Sweetness Link | |------|-------|----------------| | 1700s | Sugar becomes America’s #1 import | Rhode Island rum distilleries; Connecticut candy makers | | 1831 | Nat Turner’s rebellion | Turner’s owner, Joseph Travis, ran a small sugar operation | | 1870s-1920s | Great Migration | Black families flee the “bitter” South for “sweet” Northern factory jobs (candy, chocolate, baking) | | 1977 | Song of Solomon published | Morrison reclaims sweetness as metaphor for lost African American lineage | Suggested next steps Legal and political consequences News

The core of Nat Turner’s history is the rebellion that took place in August 1831. It remains the bloodiest slave revolt in American history. | Year | Event | Sweetness Link |