Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
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I wanted to know more about the beguiling Nina, and my
cousin had plenty of stories to share. He told me that her
grandfather was a Russian sert-a farmer who could be
bought and sold by the noble who owned his land. Family
legend has it that this serf, a remarkable and intelligent man,
helped to change the course of the history of sugar. In the
early 1800s, the British controlled most of the sugar
plantations of the Caribbean and the sea routes to Europe.
As a result, their rivals were desperate to find a new way to
create sugar. They turned to beets.
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