A British poet captured the ethos: “I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar or rum?” The sweetening of coffee and tea took precedence over human life and set the tone for slavery in the Americas.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/19/magazine/history-slavery-smithsonian.html …
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