A review by serendipitysbooks
The Cost of Sugar by Cynthia McLeod

4.0

 The Cost of Sugar is set nearly 150 years earlier. The plantations still rely on slave labour and the travesties of this system are plain to see. The plot has plenty of action At the societal level there are raids by Marrons, financial pressures and an outbreak of yellow fever. At the personal level there is a long running rift between two sisters when one is determined to disrupt the other’s marriage, conflict between one of the sisters and her husband over his relationship with an enslaved woman, and more. The role of Portuguese Jews in Suriname society was another thread in this story that interested me.