Curtis, Wayne. And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. Revised and updated. New York: Broadway Books, 2018. eISBN9780525575030. User-supplied PDF.
Author explicitly refuses a single proven rum inventor/location; surveys Barbados, Hispanic Caribbean, Brazil and older hypotheses. Ligon's 1647-1650 residence/1657 book and named deeds offer document leads. Barbados settlement1627, sugar transplantation1493, mid17c rum diffusion framed as book claims.
Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum, revised and updated (2018), supplied PDF pp. 16-27.
Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, revised and updated (New York: Broadway Books, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 16-27.
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Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum, PDF 16-27.
Rum origins and sugar-economy evidence
Source and supplied-PDF locator verified against read text/images. 1639 toast,1652 rumbullion,1658 deed and1703 MountGay record require direct source checks; earliest surviving mention not proof of invention. Pages23-24 fermentation limit and distillation chronology technically oversimplified. Ready denotes reusable source-locator reference, not publication clearance.
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