Its compressed characterization of New England’s involvement in the slave trade must not be generalized into absence of complicity. Criticism of a tidy triangular-trade diagram does not negate enslaved labor and linked Atlantic commerce.
Don Cazentre, Spirits & Cocktails of Upstate New York: A History (2017). Supplied ebook PDF positions, not print-page numbers.
The chapter places Albany rum within Caribbean molasses supply, imperial conflict and commercial shipping.
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Rum, slavery and regional trade
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The chapter places Albany rum within Caribbean molasses supply, imperial conflict and commercial shipping.
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Its compressed characterization of New England’s involvement in the slave trade must not be generalized into absence of complicity. Criticism of a tidy triangular-trade diagram does not negate enslaved labor and linked Atlantic commerce.
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