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Landmark Research Project Examines AMA Archives
September 13, 2024
In this new research project, the American Medical Association (AMA) is opening its archival collections to researchers from the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project beginning in the summer of […]
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The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery.
Before French Jesuit priests planted the first cane stalk near Baronne Street in New Orleans in 1751, sugar was already a huge moneymaker in British New York. By the 1720s, one of every two ships in the city’s port was either arriving from or heading to the Caribbean, importing sugar and enslaved people and exporting…