Rum, Romance & RebellionMinton, Balch, 1928 - 289 páginas |
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Página xi
... historical whole - cloth ; cloth , it is true , that turns out to be the same old material , but with a different texture and sheen . Throughout our history , from Columbus to the Civil War , we are constantly confronted with rum or its ...
... historical whole - cloth ; cloth , it is true , that turns out to be the same old material , but with a different texture and sheen . Throughout our history , from Columbus to the Civil War , we are constantly confronted with rum or its ...
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... history , for where we find rum , we find action , sometimes cruel , sometimes heroic , sometimes hu- morous , but always vigorous and interesting . In- trospecting and honest New Englanders summed up a phase of contemporaneous ...
... history , for where we find rum , we find action , sometimes cruel , sometimes heroic , sometimes hu- morous , but always vigorous and interesting . In- trospecting and honest New Englanders summed up a phase of contemporaneous ...
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... history , both social and political , and it is grave injustice to so potent a figure in our national life to make its name serve as a mere journalistic jingle to designate such alien liquors as Scotch , Kümmel and Schnaaps . It is not ...
... history , both social and political , and it is grave injustice to so potent a figure in our national life to make its name serve as a mere journalistic jingle to designate such alien liquors as Scotch , Kümmel and Schnaaps . It is not ...
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Charles William Taussig. that beguiles one into forgetting its more sinister and vicious history . Perhaps now and then , certain predilections of mine creep in , but if they do- ah , well , they are but generous thoughts that in this ...
Charles William Taussig. that beguiles one into forgetting its more sinister and vicious history . Perhaps now and then , certain predilections of mine creep in , but if they do- ah , well , they are but generous thoughts that in this ...
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... history than William B. Weeden , who used the material in his Economic and Social History of New England , 1620-1789 . He says : " Massachusetts writers have always been especially sore at the point where the trade in African Negroes is ...
... history than William B. Weeden , who used the material in his Economic and Social History of New England , 1620-1789 . He says : " Massachusetts writers have always been especially sore at the point where the trade in African Negroes is ...
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ackeys of gold adventure & owners African Coast Ahmah-de-Bellah American Barbados barrels beer bill Boston bowl British brought Canot Cape Coast Cape Coast Castle Captain caravan cargo Casuistry of Culture CHAPTER Charles Francis Adams chief cider colonists commerce crew Customs deck distilled drink eighteenth century Emty enforcement England English feet flip French funeral gall Do 200 gall of Rum gallons George Gold Coast Guinea Hhds History Indians John Adams land laws letter Lindsay liquor London mate middle passage Molasses Act morals Narragansett Bay negroes Newport number of slaves old tenor port punch Rhode Island Robert Champlin rum and molasses Rum Row sail sailors sell Senegal sent Sierra Leone Simeon Potter slave ship slave trade Sloop Sloop adventure smuggling sold spirit sugar tavern tion toddy town Trips of water vessel voyage Weeden West Indies wine woman Slave women wrote York
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Página 147 - That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next, after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave-trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Página 234 - Should a traveller, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men, wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted...
Página 25 - ... our Rum doth as little hurt as your Brandy and in the opinion of Christians is much more wholesome : however to keep the Indians temperate and sober is a very, good and Christian performance but to prohibit them all strong liquors...
Página 39 - ... if the King of Great Britain in person were encamped on Boston Common, at the head of twenty thousand men, with all his navy on our coast, he would not be able to execute these laws. They would be resisted or eluded.
Página 225 - An other reason may be, that it may be in this case as it is with waters when their streames are stopped or dammed up, when they gett passage they flow with more violence, and make more noys and disturbance, then when they are suffered to rune quietly in their owne chanels.
Página 139 - But Las Casas, from the inconsistency natural to men who hurry with headlong impetuosity towards a favourite point, was incapable of making this distinction.
Página 221 - Since in a bed a man and maid May bundle and be chaste; It doth no good to burn up wood; It is a needless waste.
Página 194 - If after ten o'clock they see lights, to inquire if there be warrantable cause ; and if they hear any noise or disorder, wisely to demand the reason ; if they are dancing and singing vainly, to admonish them to cease; if they do not discontinue, after moderate admonition, then the constable to take their names and acquaint the authorities therewith.
Página 129 - ... to impart a gloss to his skin. Ormond remarked that these jockey-tricks are as common in Africa as among horse-dealers in Christian lands ; and desiring me to feel the negro's pulse, I immediately detected disease or excessive excitement. In a few days I found the poor wretch, abandoned...
Página 188 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...