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Brandy in the 1760s

Austin Browning // AMH 4112.001 – The Atlantic World, 1400-1900 As many may already know, water wasn’t always clean or fit for human consumption in colonial America which required another source for beverages: alcohol.  By the 1750s, rum became a large import to the colonies as the primary beverage of choice.[1]  We saw this consumption […]

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