5 days These Product Boycotts Actually Scared Companies Into Paying Attention 24/7 Wall St.

The known history of boycotts stems back to the 1700s. In the 1750s, American Quaker colonists began refusing to buy sugar. Sugar was one of the products sourced from enslaved Africans, and Quakers felt an ethical call to avoid any slave products. This boycott eventually spread to Britain in the 1790s, when the British began […]