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Listen to Barbadian author Andrea Stuart gives a riveting insight into her book Sugar in the Blood at the Barbados High Commission in London. An introduction is given by Barbadian historian Richard Drayton who is the widely respected Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London. The book launch comes at an interesting time with a reparation claim being explored by Caricom. The book highlights how the history of Barbados and England is forever intertwined. Sugar built Britain on the backs of slaves.

 

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112 responses to “Barbadian Author Andrea Stuart Discusses her Book Sugar in the Blood”

  1. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    If you were thinking of writing a book about Mohammed perceived accuracy may be the order of the day. Robert you are more than welcome. but nobody goes to those strip clubs anymore…. they don’t like to stand in line.

  2. Cyprian La Touché Avatar
    Cyprian La Touché

    @robert
    Mr Ross, what are you talking about? What has anything I said got to do about me and MY personal beliefs?

    Where did I say I was or was not a Christian or Jew or Buddhist or animist or atheist or anything for that matter? I asked YOU to IMAGINE a particular situation, one that YOU opened the door to and this is how you behave? asking me or rather TELLING me that I have a desire to be a “God”!
    And you want to pretend THAT constitutes intelligent discussion?
    I have NEVER told you what you should believe in? I don’t care. If you choose to accept the word as gospel that is YOUR choice. But it is the fact that you seem to even lack the capacity to question or imagine an alternate scenario that merely involved your beliefs is what disturbs me.
    For you the whole of life only makes sense if the sun orbits the earth -and by implication does the earth orbit you??-
    Do I want to be a “God”? Short answer. None of your business.
    Why don’t you respond to the question I originally asked you? What IF…?

    Cyprian

  3. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Ross
    ….waiting to see how you deal with that short-pitched delivery on or about the off stump….. 🙂

  4. robert ross Avatar
    robert ross

    BT

    By letting it go or cutting it over the heads of slips for six. But for me now, BT, it’s close of play and so I wish everyone here, and most especially Cyprian whom I respect and who has taken up a job offer in Belmont Road, a very joyous Christ-Mass.

  5. Cyprian La Touché Avatar
    Cyprian La Touché

    @fenty
    Where we are now in our understanding of life is for me very interesting. Jasper is at once correct and (in my opinion) a little (misleadingly) incorrect.
    It (kinda) supposes that the possible methods of critical analysis are limited to either empirical or scientific. That’s why he can talk about borders posing a challenge.
    However what if there is a third that we now simply have to develop a new vocabulary to articulate it?
    Now I am really playing fast and loose with what I am pushing so don’t take everything I say to be “gospel”. But for example ever so often new words appear and old words from other languages enter the English language that describe concepts not previously characterized in western culture. The African word ” Ubuntu” is the newest for me that comes to mind.
    When I was taught basic physics there was this more or less universally accepted understanding that light could either be only a particle or a wave. Then Heinsburg introduced the strange idea you could accurately describe either one thing or the other but not both at the same time because observation of one affects the other. Then Schrodinger extends the weirdness that only when someone is looking will whatever being observed be compelled to choose a particular state of being. But what trumps all that is the idea introduced by quantum physics one thing can exist in two (or more) places at once. String theory has now introduced arguments for dimensions that exist beyond ours and conditions that existed before and mechanisms that drove the Big Bang!
    How can we describe the stuff of dreams and thoughts and things that embrace infinity? We see all these things, we know and experience all these things and can even speak in common tongue about these things but an actual description of what the hell we are talking about is still beyond our current vocabulary.

    Cyprian

  6. Cyprian La Touché Avatar
    Cyprian La Touché

    @robert
    Merry Xmas to you too, and looking foreword to seeing you in a better place at another time. Even maybe this Belmont road you keep talking about!
    See ya
    Cyprian

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @Cyprian

    Now you are talking BBE talk. Many confuse temporal with a reality which is still unraveling for humankind.

  8. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Mark Fenty, robert Ross and cyprian.
    First of all cyprian, thanks for your recommendation on my eshua a.k.a. Jesus the Nazarene, scheduled for early in the new year.Should be of particular to the brainwashed and indoctrinated. I ampleased at your attempts to have meaningful discussion on this blog, instead of political cussing and swearing.

    Mark Fenty: and those who don’t know of the academic achievements of Barbadians . We have a Nobel Laureate among us; one of our own a Bajan, lecturing at Cave hill. I hope this is high enough for your liking.

    Dr. Leonard Nurse
    SENIOR LECTURER
    CENTRE FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (CERMES)
    FACULTY OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
    CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS
    Tel: (246) 417-4344/4316 • Email: Leonard.Nurse@cavehill.uwi.edu

    PROFILE
    Dr. Leonard Nurse’s longstanding relationship with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shot him into the media spotlight, when the IPCC was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel peace Prize for its contribution to climate change research. Dr. Nurse has been a member of the IPCC’s research and author team for four global assessment reports. In 2007, he was selected as Coordinating Lead Author by the IPCC for the chapter “Small Island States” in the fourth assessment report, titled Climate Change 2007. For his contributions Dr. Nurse received the Companion of Honour of Barbados. He was also the recipient of Barbados Centennial Honours (BCH), January 2001 and the Governor-General’s Award for the Environment, February 2001. Dr. Nurse, in addition to his commitment at UWI, functions in various professional capacities. He is appointed Barbados’ Special Envoy for the Environment (1999–present); is a member of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Consulting Group for Capacity Building (August 2004–present); a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the World Bank (2002–present); and a council member, Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University (1991–present). He was also Vice-Chairman, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE), 1995-2002. Prior to his appointment at Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), Dr. Nurse held the posts of Director, Coastal Zone Management Unit, Barbados, and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Government of Barbados. Dr. Nurse’s academic qualifications include a BSc (First-Class Hons. UWI, Mona, 1975); MSc (Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, 1979); PhD (McGill, 1987).
    RESEARCH INTERESTS
    Dr. Nurse is particularly concerned about the impacts of potential climate change and climate variability, with special focus on small island states; evaluation of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, and their applicability to small islands; human impact on coastal dynamics and beach systems; methodologies for predicting coastal erosion and accretion rates in tropical low-energy environments.
    I would als refer you to the work of Dr. Carl Wade of MIT, and of Course Kamau Brathwaite and George Lamming. All highly acclaimed internationally for their work.

  9. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @David,
    I wrote a
    @ cyprian; “thanks for your recommendation on my writing. If the contributors want to have a sense of contemporaty bajan history they could get these two books; The royal Palms Are Dying, and “The Wind Also Listens”,available at Amazon.com. They are also invited to the upcoming book launch of “Yeshua a.k.a. Jesus the Nazarene” to take lace early in the new year. It would be interesting to get the reviews of those; the brainwashed and indoctrinated (hello GP, RR, etc.)

  10. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    tHANKS FOR YOUR ACCOLADE ALVIN
    brainwashed and indoctrinated

  11. Cyprian La Touché Avatar
    Cyprian La Touché

    @everybody
    You know something, after reviewing this entire conversation both about the book by Ms. Stuart and my subsequent observations on slavery, connections, and life itself , it strikes me that the African word I mentioned above goes a long way in describing a lot that I am talking about.
    For those unfamiliar with Ubuntu it is one of the ancient African philosophies and reasoned explanations of existence. The idea that I exist because of you. Actually even that it is what you and everyone else do , in the very act of doing it that “makes space in the universe” and allows me to exist.
    It is so amazingly opposed to a western philosophy centered on the individual being at the center of all things.
    “I think therefore I am.” Comes immediately to mind.
    What the book attempts to show is that one society exist only because of the actions of another. That it is her intent (and even more moral duty and human obligation) to make space for their dead voices to live today. What I attempt to argue is that it is our actions that are needed to ensure her success.
    I don’t exist in this universe alone. Of that I am pretty certain. So maybe is is not because we see the stars, but rather because the stars see us and we are allowed to exist.

    Cyprian

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    gearkeriesy

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