Periodical Index Detail
Colonial Williamsburg Journal
| Title | Thomas Jefferson and the Maple Sugar Scheme |
| Issue | Volume 34, Number 03 (CWJ, Autumn 2012) |
| Description | Campaign by Quaker abolitionists including Benjamin Rush to promote making maple sugar to replace West Indies cane sugar produced by slave labor; role of Thomas Jefferson to develop the industry by yeoman farmers in America although efforts in Virginia were not successful save western, mountainous area of the state;1791 trip of Jefferson and James Madison through upstate New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Long Island; description of maple sugar production |
| Author | Theobald, Mary Miley |
| Pages | 44-50 |