Colonial molasses trade | Wikipedia audio article

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Colonial molasses trade


00:00:37 1 Colonial rum production
00:01:53 2 Economic significance
00:02:53 3 Problems with demand
00:04:04 4 Dutch threat to the monopoly
00:04:53 5 Molasses Act of 1733
00:06:30 6 Sugar Act of 1764
00:08:11 7 Other uses of molasses
00:09:05 8 New England rum
00:10:05 9 See also



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The colonial molasses trade occurred throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the British colonies of the Americas. Molasses was a major trading product.
Molasses was produced via the exploitation of enslaved persons in sugar plantations in the Caribbean (also called the West Indies), in islands controlled by England (e.g., Jamaica and Barbados), Spain (e.g., Santo Domingo), and France (e.g., Martinique). The English colonies along the Atlantic (mainly the Thirteen Colonies) purchased molasses and used it to produce rum, primarily in distilleries in New England.