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🏴🇬🇧 Chapter Seven. 300,000 People Stopped Eating Sugar.
In 1791, Parliament rejected the abolition bill. Again.
So three hundred thousand ordinary British people decided to fight without Parliament's permission.
They stopped buying sugar.
The first consumer boycott in history.
Led almost entirely by women. 💪
Women who couldn't vote. Couldn't hold office. Couldn't sit in Parliament.
They had one power. The household purse.
Grocers reported sales dropping by a third.
A pamphlet circulated in every kitchen in Britain.
"A family that uses five pounds of sugar a week will prevent the slavery of one fellow creature."
Five hundred and nineteen petitions reached Parliament in a single year.
Three hundred thousand people. One moral choice. At their kitchen table.
Parliament had said no.
The people said it anyway. 🇬🇧
Their individual stories are on our page. Our book is coming soon.
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