frosted-work

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Include also the effects of forced labor, which reduced the average duration of a slave's life to fifteen years, and carried off yearly one-fifteenth of the whole number, and the reason for the slaver's profits and for his unscrupulous activity become clear. Out of the sugar, thus clarified with blood, the glittering frosted-work of colonial splendor rose.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863