Chapter 2. Promise and Perils of a New Commodity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on the Text ix
4. Introduction. A World of Rum 1
5. PART I. CREATION
6. Chapter 1. The “Invention” of Rum 17
7. Chapter 2. Promise and Perils of a New Commodity 44
8. Chapter 3. Circulating Ideas in a World of Rum 73
9. PART II. EXTRACTION
10. Chapter 4. Slavery and the Work of Making Rum 101
11. Chapter 5. Rum’s Environmental Costs 125
12. Chapter 6. Manufacturing Demand and Supplying Slavers 146
13. PART III. CONNECTION AND CONFLICT
14. Chapter 7. Whose Profits? 171
15. Chapter 8. Defining Rum by Challenging Slavery 194
16. Epilogue. Global-Caribbean Legacies of an Atlantic History 221
17. Glossary 231
18. List of Abbreviations 235
19. Notes 237
20. Index 295
21. Acknowledgments 305