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Genealogical Research Of Andrea Stuart Sugar In The Blood

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Get on Board! The book Sugar in the Blood describes the genealogical research of Andrea Stuart about the Ashby Family. Her research on the Ashby family is based on the beginning of George Ashby who sailed from England to Barbados. In Barbados, her own ancestor would struggle to make a living on the island. George Ashby like other immigrants did not know how to work the land. This book overall is effective on establishing how hard it was to begin a life on the island, how plantations developed and how the slaves were treated. The novel describes how hard it was to go to the island of Barbados and start a new life. Andrea Stuart’s ancestor George Ashby arrived from England on a ship to Barbados. She describes the journey as a hard one because …show more content…

When George Ashby first arrived he had to buy land in order to have a place to live. Not only that, he had to clear the land to start building a home and start a farm. He like many other people struggled to do this alone. Stuart mentions that many people had extra hands to work on the land. These hands are the Indentured servants that came over to work to pay for debt. Many of them were just like the other immigrants who were struggling to make a living. They may have suffered quite at the hands of their masters they too hoped to make an achievement on Barbados. Stuart does not mention the indentured servants too much. Instead however, she jumps for one thought to the next. Her next major focus to establish the idea of the struggle to live is when her ancestor married his wife Deborah. This is when the task of building the home. These homes would have the roofs built so low that no one could hardly stand in it. The major importance of these houses would try to prevent rain from coming in. yet, the ideas of houses is not the real struggle on the island to make a living. A major detail to the struggle of the island is the disease wiping out the whole island. Famine became an issue when people like George Ashby were not from a farming background. Stuart claims that all of these horrible conditions led to a major outcry on the island. If someone is going through such a

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