Keywords: rum trade
Item 102023
Thomas Robison from Thomas Hodges regarding illegal slave trade, Les Cayes, April 6, 1791
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1791 Location: Portland; Les Cayes Media: Ink on paper
Item 135767
Suspected Rum Runner Dixie III, Portland, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1927 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents
"… every type of vessel involved in the Caribbean rum trade prior to Maine statehood. X Abstract of the Laws Respecting Licensed Houses…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance
"… she died." Metta Victoria Fuller, 1853 X Rum, Fire Water published in Ahiamihewintuhangan: The Prayer Song, 1858 Collections of Maine…"
Site Page
"… such as cloth, wine, sugar loaves, molasses, rum, shoes, tools, different types of food that they did not already have, and sometimes ships brought…"
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 108-128
"… in which those views lead him to rail against "rum sellers," the Irish, and any Catholics. Topics and people mentioned include: Patenburg Massacre…"
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
