Enslavement, Evangelicalism and Bibles

Fox deployed visceral metaphors of cannibalistic consumption, insisting that ‘every pound of sugar used may be considered as consuming two ounces of human flesh’ (see second paragraph). His ‘blood-sugar’ rhetoric, common in abolitionist literature of the period, was intentionally appalling, attempting to stress the British consumer’s direct complicity in the violent conditions of enslavement despite their physical distance from West Indian plantations.
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<b>Author:</b> William Fox<br>
<b>Title:</b><i> An address to the people of Great Britain on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum</i> (Hull, 1791)<br>
<b>Shelfmark:</b><a href="https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21552489790003606"> P.496(1)</a><br>
<b>Provenance:</b> Bequest of Isaac Milner (Queens’ m. 1770).

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Fox deployed visceral metaphors of cannibalistic consumption, insisting that ‘every pound of sugar used may be considered as consuming two ounces of human flesh’ (see second paragraph). His ‘blood-sugar’ rhetoric, common in abolitionist literature of the period, was intentionally appalling, attempting to stress the British consumer’s direct complicity in the violent conditions of enslavement despite their physical distance from West Indian plantations.

Author: William Fox
Title: An address to the people of Great Britain on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum (Hull, 1791)
Shelfmark: P.496(1)
Provenance: Bequest of Isaac Milner (Queens’ m. 1770).

Enslavement Milner P.496 exhibition