Tag: Andrea Stuart

  • A Family Tree That Includes Slaves — And Slave Owners Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-08-15 Celeste Headlee, Host Part of our summer reading series Island Reads, highlighting authors from the Caribbean Andrea Stuart was curious about her family’s history in Barbados. And through years of careful research, she found that her bloodline includes…

  • Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart The New York Times 2013-03-29 Amy Wilentz Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire By Andrea Stuart, Illustrated. 353 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her…

  • The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’ The Daily Beast 2013-01-24 Eric Herschthal Columbia University Barbados provided the blueprint for all future British slave settlements in the American South. Andrea Stuart talks to Eric Herschthal about how her family was entwined in the island’s tormented history. On the face of…

  • Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Knopf 2013-01-22 384 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-27283-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96115-0 Andrea Stuart In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the…