175 New American Sugar

Sugar can reasonably be called "The White Stuff" It makes us happy - and yet people are willing to abuse it, and commit crimes to make it happen. The late 19th century is when America goes from eating a similar amount of sugar as the rest of the up and coming mechanical world - to becoming the greediest of all. The combination of extending sugar plantations out into Cuba, Puerto Rico and now Hawai'i along with the rise of maufactured foods - expecially sweet treats is going to place America at the front of the...