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The Global Legacy of Sugar Planting in Australia: Historical Archaeological Excavations of a South Sea Islander Dwelling in Ayr, Queensland (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adele A Zubrzycka. Jon M Prangnell. James L Flexner. Zia Youse.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sugar, its cultivation, production, trade, and consumption, is intricately linked to past and present global colonial landscapes. In Australia, its growth and manufacture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries held strong and often overlooked associations with the American Civil War, Atlantic slave trade and abolition of...