Sugar

Christopher Pilie's long anticipated historical fiction novel "Sugar" explores the life of those that live on the island of Saint Domingue in the late 18th Century. Those that lived on the island were a part of very complicated cast system that was made up of several groups.

• The Grand Blanc - plantation owners, Artisans, and Merchants - were the wealthy class of people that were the minority in numbers on the island. At the time of the revolution, the population was approximately 25 thousan...