Editing Maple sugar (section)

==History==
Maple sugar was made by many [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]]/[[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]] peoples.  Unlike [[maple syrup]], it was easy to transport and long lasting.<ref>Tim Herd, ''Maple Sugar: From Sap to Syrup: The History, Lore, and How-To Behind This Sweet Treat'', p. 18, Storey Publishing, 2012 {{ISBN|1612122116}}</ref> It is called ''ziinzibaakwad'' by the [[Anishinaabe]]g.<ref>Weshki-Ayaad, Lippert and Gambill. [http://www.freelang.net/online/ojibwe.php?lg=gbFREELANG Ojibwe-English and English-Ojibwe online dictionary] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165650/http://www.freelang.net/online/ojibwe.php?lg=gbFREELANG |date=March 3, 2016 }}.</ref> ''[[Blessing of the Bay]]'', the second ocean-going merchant ship built in the English colonies, carried maple sugar from the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] to [[New Amsterdam]] as early as 1631.<ref name = "clark">{{Cite book
  | last = Clark
  | first = William Horace
  | title = Ships and Sailors: The Story of Our Merchant Marine
  | publisher = L.C. Page & Co
  | year = 1938
  | location = Boston
  | pages = 15–17
  }}
</ref> French awareness of the process is indicated in at least one engraver's works, those of the mid-18th-century artist Jean-Francois Turpin, the engraver Bernard (including several for Diderot's 1755 ''Encyclopedie.'') and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philographikon.com/sugarproduction.html |title=Antique Prints of Sugar Production |access-date=2014-09-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418021914/http://www.philographikon.com/sugarproduction.html |archive-date=2015-04-18 }}</ref>

Maple syrup and maple sugar were used during the American Civil War and by [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionists]] in the years before the war because most cane sugar and [[molasses]] were produced by [[Southern United States|Southern]] [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]].<ref name="atlantic">{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/11/making-the-grade-why-the-cheapest-maple-syrup-tastes-best/239133/|title=Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best|work=The Atlantic|date=1 November 2011|author=Applebaum, Yoni|accessdate=20 May 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519022320/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/11/making-the-grade-why-the-cheapest-maple-syrup-tastes-best/239133/|archivedate=19 May 2017 }}</ref><ref name="gellmann">{{cite journal |last=Gellmann |first=D |title=Pirates, Sugar, Debtors, and Slaves: Political Economy and the case for Gradual Abolition in New York |journal=Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies |year=2001 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=51–68 |doi=10.1080/714005193}}</ref> For example, [[Lucretia Mott]] was known for giving out maple candies wrapped in papers that bore messages like "Take this, my friend, you need not fear to eat. No slave hath toiled to cultivate this sweet."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blackmore |first=Willy |date=2019-08-14 |title=The Boycott's Abolitionist Roots |language=en-US |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/boycott-sugar-slavery-bds/ |accessdate=2023-02-28 |issn=0027-8378}}</ref>