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Fascinating, erudite and entertaining, this definitive account takes readers on a journey to rum's origins, from 1492 when Columbus brought sugar cane to the Americas and began a vast colonial enterprise that circled the globe, to mid-Seventeenth century Barbados, where a liquor made from distilled sugar cane was called "Rumbullion", to the important role it played in the history of the slave trade in the 1500s, to how it helped sustain the British empire for 300 years. From the traditional daily ration of grog to the Mojito it truly shook our world!
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This account takes readers on a journey to rum's origins, from 1942 when Columbus brought sugar cane to the Americas and began a vast colonial enterprise that circled the globe, to mid-17th-century Barbados, to the role it played in the slave trade and how it helped sustain the British empire for 300 years.
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- PublisherCitadel Press Inc.,U.S.
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0806525819
- ISBN 13 9780806525815
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