Abolitionist Sugar Sampler Box
Abolitionist Sugar Sampler Box
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A collection of the sugars that shaped American food history, each with its own relationship to enslavement. There’s cane sugar – white and brown. These uneven pieces reflect those cut with “nippers” when sugar came in hard uncut cones. As cane sugar was so integral in the economy of enslaving others, abolitionists in the “Free Produce Movement” found alternatives. One was relatively unprocessed beet sugar crystals, with a rich flavor and beautiful crystal form. There’s sorghum, from the sorghum grain that arrived with enslaved workers and was boiled into a sweet molasses, and honey, created by another newcomer to the North American landscape – the Honey Bee. And sweeteners were native to North America, such as maple, here in boiled form, and sugar from berries – both used by Native Americans for legends of time. A true taste of American sugars that shaped the foods of today. ALL NATURAL! Delightful and Important!
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Historical Insights
Historical Insights
Honey, beet sugar “free produce movement.” As the name implies, this movement, primarily started by female Quakers in the early 1800s, promoted food and fabrics not made by enslaved workers. In 1830, the Quakers launched a Free Produce
Association in Philadelphia and, soon after, women of the African American community formed the Colored Female Free Produce Society of Philadelphia.
Among other initiatives, the African American women encouraged “colored capitalists” to buy from Free Produce stores. An African American publication, Freedom’s Journal, carried an article indicating that every twenty-five people who used cane sugar found work for one slave. The women activists dispersed recipes that replaced cane sugar with free produce – frequently honey.
Honey could never be mass-produced, so it never took off to the degree of sugar beet and sugar cane, other Free Produce sugars. Its history as a new-comer to the nation is long-forgotten and much of today’s commercial honey is imported from China. Home beekeepers have created an interesting cottage industry, helping
the immigrant bee, and its honey, survive.
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