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October 17, 2013 – Hour 2
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Author Andrea Stuart talks about her book Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s History of Slavery and Empire. Stuart’s riveting book details the history of both sides – black and white, master and slave – of her Caribbean family, dating back to a sugar plantation in the 1630s.