Ian Williams describes in captivating detail how Rum and the
molasses that it was made from was to the 18th century what oil is
today. Rum was used by the colonists to clear Native American
tribes and to buy slaves. To make it, they regularly traded with
the enemy French during the Seven Years' War, angering their
British masters and setting themselves on the road to Revolution.
The regular flow of rum was essential to keeping both armies in the
field since soldiers relied on rum to keep up their fighting
spirits. Even though the Puritans themselves were fond of rum in
quantities that would appall modern day doctors, temperance and
Prohibition have obscured the historical role of the "Global Spirit
with its warm heart in the Caribbean." Ian Williams' book
triumphantly restores rum's rightful place in history, taking us
across space and time, from its origins in the plantations of
Barbados through Puritan and Revolutionary New England, to voodoo
rites in modern Haiti, where to mix rum with Coke risks invoking
the wrath of the god, and across the Florida straits where Fidel
and the Bacardi family are still fighting over the rights for the
ingredients of Cuba Libre.
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