The Story of Spirit – Rum with Matthew Parker
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Campari Academy UK’s Chris Dennis is joined by historian, novelist and researcher Matthew Parker (The Sugar Barons) for a deep dive into the true origins of Rum; a category known for its birth through bloodshed and pain.
Part 1
Chris and Matthew discuss the arrival of Europeans into a new land and how this developed into a brutal quest for sugar production in the British Colonies.
Part 2
Chris and Matthew focus on the dark days of the Atlantic slave trade, the long, arduous road to emancipation, rum and Jamaican Liberation.
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