Spirits+in+the+Colonial+Period


 * Political || One of the biggest impacts that Spirits had on politics was in America. In the colonies in North America, distillers had started buying French molasses at a much cheaper price than the British Molasses. The Americans ignored the law and continued smuggling molasses in. This acted as a catalyst for increasing tensions between the US and Britain to the point of revolution and war. ||
 * Economic || Distilled Drinks quickly replaced wine as payment for work because it was cheaper, quicker to make, had a higher alcoholic content, and the higher alcoholic content acted as a preservative, allowing for it to last longer. ||
 * Religious || Distilled alcohol was banned in places like Nuremberg, Germany for causing people to become to drunk and disorderly for the city to handle. ||
 * Social || Once Distilled Drinks like rum and Brandy became readily available to people, everyone started drinking them essentially wherever they were during whatever they were doing. It became almost abnormal to not be drinking during a social event or meeting. ||
 * Intellectual || For a time people believed that spirits had medicinal qualities. Since previously people thought that wine was a healing drink, it only made sense to them that a drink with higher alcoholic content has higher healing properties. ||
 * Artistic || The African slave traders traded slaves for many different products of the art such as textiles, bowls, and jugs ||

Quotes:

 * Wine was a convenient form of currency, but European slave traders quickly realized that brandy was even better. (pg. 104)
 * Rum was the liquid embodiment of both the triumph and the oppression of the first era of globalization. (pg. 111)
 * Throughout the colonial period, spirits provided an escape from hardship-both the self-imposed kind experienced by the European colonists and the far greater hardships they imposed on the African slaves and indigenous peoples. (pg. 127)
 * Jefferson did his best to cultivate vines in AMerica...But his cause was hopeless. Wine was far more expensive, contained less alcohol, and lack the American connotations of whiskey, and unpretentious drink associated with independence and self-sufficiency. (pg. 127)


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This image depicts a man receiving a shipment of imported british rum.
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 * While distilled beverages had more of a political and economic effect on history they also affected the pub scene. People often drank a form of distilled drink through punches or mixed drinks.**


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