About National Rum Day
Rum is synonymous with the Caribbean, where the first modern rums were distilled on sugarcane plantations in the 17th Century.
The history of the spirit is intrinsically linked to slavery, as it was slaves working on the plantations who discovered that molasses, the dark treacle left over after sugar has been refined, could be fermented and then distilled into a spirit
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