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Identifier: oldnewenglandchu00bacouoft (find matches)
Title: Old New England churches and their children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bacon, Mary Schell (Hoke), 1870-
Subjects: New England -- Church history
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ned;When now these three are mixed with care,Then added be of sugar a small share;And that the drink we may quite perfect see,A top a musky nut must grated be. In Boston, John Bayle was able to secure a liquorlicense only on condition that he set up his rumshopnear the meeting house of the Second Church, andthere he offered an invitation to thirsty sinners ontheir way to hear Increase Mather berate them. The fortunes of the New England aristocrat werealmost without exception made in the slavetrade, the making of rum, or the trade in tobacco.The latter it was considered a sin to smoke butthey sold it to the Dutch and used the NewEngland meeting house in which to store it. TheWest Indians and Virginians bought most oftheir slaves from the New England importers,and we have note of three thousand pounds oftobacco given as an equivalent for a negro boyor girl between the ages of seven and eleven.Four thousand pounds of Virginia tobacco wasabout the figure for a boy or girl between the ages
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Quincy Church, Quincy, Mass. 115 of eleven and fifteen; but a young woman be-tween the ages of fifteen and twenty-four was putin the balance with five thousand pounds. Theships were so deeply laden with slaves that itbecame at one time impossible to carry any rum,and this was so great a grievance that the slavesfate hung in the balance. Should several be thrownoverboard and a hogshead of rum take theirplace, or should appetite be sacrificed to the morepermanent investment? These old meeting-house fathers showed thefamous New England trade-instinct early. OneSimeon Potter who was in the business of buyingpeople started his captain off with rum in 1768,with the following instructions: Make your Chief Trade with the Blacks andlittle or none with the white people if possibleto be avoided. Worter ye Rum as much aspossible and sell as much by short measure asyou can. This commercial method was by no means ex-ceptional. It was the rule of the Puritan fathers.These methods gave many a man fir

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