Sugar Maples and Maple Sugar at Historic Smithfield.
| Autor: | Bixby, Donald E. |
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| Zdroj: | Smithfield Review; 2015, Vol. 19, p147-149, 3p |
| Abstrakt: | The article discusses the historical significance of the sugar maples, Acer saccharum, which are planted at Historic Smithfield in Virginia. It references an article in the "Colonial Williamsburg Journal," by Mary Tiley Theobald, which revealed that statesmen Benjamin Rush and Thomas Jefferson, and the abolitionist Quakers of Philadelphia, have promoted maple sugar over can sugar to destroy Negro slavery in the 1700s. It is noted that Jefferson planted maple saplings at Monticello. |
| Databáze: | Supplemental Index |
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