Does your family have the tradition of eating cake on Christmas?
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Does your family have the tradition of eating cake on Christmas?
As part of our series for national candy month, let’s take historic looks at sweets in colonial Latin America. Women known as dulceras roamed the streets of urban centers with platters of sweets for sale carried on their heads.
Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 consisted of a massive group of multi ethnic indentured servants including Native Americans, African Americans, and poor disgruntled European farmers who mobilized in an armed movement against landed elites who monopolized colonial institutions and access to land to grow food.
