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Brands like Tate & Lyle cashed in on the 'romantic' allure of cane sugar. And of course buccaneering colonial nostalgia appeals to a certain strand of the British Establishment. /9
Sugarcane plantations were perhaps the worst of these. And countless millions of African slaves suffered and died being transported or in the process of harvesting, pressing and boiling cane, or being punished for disobedience or low productivity. /3