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