It was not until I was reading some of the work by the abolitionists and … one of their big … campaigns was that it was ‘blood-stained sugar,’ … that it carried the blood of slaves, and I remember actually at that point putting some sugar into something and thinking, ‘Ah, it’s this!’ And … I thought again about the way that commodities — in my case it was sugar; in America the parallels would be, as I say, cotton or tobacco — how these … commodities have such real, visceral impacts on the way our lives unfold and how extraordinary that is.
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