In 1792, the first consumer boycott was organised to protest against the inhumane treatment of slaves in the production of sugar in the West Indies.
In hiscomic novel of the time, Melincourt, Thomas Love Peacock (1817) wrote of the trade in sugar that it was ‘economically superfluous, physically pernicious, morally atrocious and politically abominable’. Much the same could be said of ‘Conditional Cash Transfers’ (CCTs) today.
