Where did rum come from? What what is originally called? When do we talk about pirates?!

In this episode, we are traveling to the Caribbean to discuss the origins of a new, potent liquor that forever changed the way people lived with and consumed alcohol.

Primary Sources:

Sir Henry Colt, “The Voyage of Sr Henrye Colt...” in Harlow, ed. Colonising expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana (London: Hakluyt Society, 1925).

Cotton Mather, Sober Considerations (Boston: 1708).

Increase Mather, A sermon occasioned by the execution of a man, second edition (Boston: 1687).

Increase Mather, Wo to Drunkards: Two Sermons Testifying against the Sin of Drunkenness, second edition (Boston: 1712).

Richard Ligon, A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados (London: 1657).

Benjamin Wadsworth, An Essay to do Good (Boston: 1710).

Secondary Sources:

David W. Conroy, In Public Houses: Drink & the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts (Williamsburg, VA: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007).

Richard Foss, Rum: A Global History (London: Reaktion Books, 2012).

James E. McWilliams, A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).

Frederick H. Smith, Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005).

Frederick H. Smith, “European Impressions of the Island Carib’s Use of Alcohol in the Early Colonial Period” Ethnohistory, 53, 3 (Summer 2006).

W.J. Rorabaugh The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Sharon V. Salinger, Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

Ian Williams, Rum: A Social and Sociable History (New York: Nation Books, 2005).

David Wondrich, Punch: The Delights and Dangers of the Flowing Bowl (New York: Penguin Books, 2010).

Written and recorded by: Kenyon Payne

Theme music: "Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Outro music: “D´vil,” anrocomposer

Additional featured music:

“Drunken Sailor,” performed by the Midshipmen Glee Club (1977)

“Educational Presentation,” lkoliks

“Deal,” AudioCoffee

“Into the Darkness” (cello version), Onetent

“Bay Rum Riddim,” u_98673jp944

“Lid,” anrocomposer

“Quirky Whimsical Play,” Sonican

“Trireme,” Table Top Audio

“Distilled Tropical,” Table Top Audio

“Down By the Sea,” Table Top Audio

“Pirates,” Table Top Audio

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