A Cup of Tea

Scene 1 · A grocer's shop in East London, March 1850 Homo Ludens
The thread is pulled

The way to Havana is open

London's ledger is closed, but the account is not. Of the 4½d paid for a pound of sugar, 1.75d never reached London: it stayed on the far side of the Atlantic. Seven of her eighteen farthings are still on the counter. Your ledger now has a new column: Labour. The last line of that column has no name.

The receipt, reprinted
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