In her new book, Sugar in the Blood, Andrea Stuart weaves her family story around the history of slavery and sugar in Barbados. Stuart's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather ...

Acclaimed biographer Andrea Stuart is one hell of an evocative historical writer. Especially when, as part of her story, she has her own family to draw on. In her new book Sugar in the Blood, you can ...

Modern Britain was built on sugar; there is hardly a manufacturing town on these shores that was not in some way connected with the "Africa trade". The glittering prosperity of slave ports such as ...

Andrea Stuart's family history, Sugar In The Blood, is a superb feat of research and memory, so I know it can't be her fault that she's late for our interview. Quarter of an hour after we are due to ...

On the face of it, what happened in the tiny island of Barbados 400 years ago seems irrelevant to Americans today. Even now, the island matters to Americans for perhaps one reason: the weather—it’s a ...

“In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a ...

To be the descendant of Barbadian slaves and white British sugar plantation owners is an extraordinary legacy, for it means that one side of your family once owned the other. But that is the strange ...

Andrea Stuart was curious about her family's history in Barbados. And through years of careful research, she found that her bloodline includes both slave owners and slaves. She has written about her ...

Acclaimed biographer Andrea Stuart is one hell of an evocative historical writer. Especially when, as part of her story, she has her own family to draw on. In her new book Sugar in the Blood, you can ...