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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/2/2022
How 18th C. Quakers Led a Sugar Boycott Against Slavery
by Julie L. Holcomb
"In the 1780s, British and American Quakers launched an extensive and unprecedented propaganda campaign against slavery and slave-labor products."
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SOURCE: NYT
9-16-16
David Singerman warns the sugar industry has used tactics like Big Tobacco to confuse the public about the dangers of their product
by David Singerman
"If we want to check the power of Big Sugar, we’d be well served to acknowledge the long record — past as well as present — of the industry’s machinations."
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