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CHAPTER 7 AP%u00ae Working with Evidence 287DOCUMENT 2 A Slave Owner Regulates Workers%u2019 Access to RumA prominent Philadelphia lawyer and landowner gave these instructions to his overseer about giving rum to his enslaved workers during the harvest.Source: Benjamin Chew on providing alcohol to his enslaved workers, 1794.I have written . . . to let you have [illegible] Rum & other necessaries for the Harvest. But as these articles are so [illegible] dear I must recommend it to you to be as sparing of them as possible. . . . I must rely on you good man [to conduct] the Business. . . . I would have you let the People have a little Rum%u2014let them be cautious in using too much Spirits during Harvest%u2014it will be well to mix some molasses with water to drink%u2014it is very wholesome & much recommended. . . . I need not caution you that a great deal depends upon your own proper attention to yourself and that you are careful of good Conduct during Harvest.Question to Consider: What attitude toward the consumption of alcohol is described in the source?Analyzing Historical Evidence: What elements of the institution of slavery would make slave owners cautious about giving alcohol to enslaved people?DOCUMENT 3 Genteel Men Drinking Wine TogetherIn this painting, a group of well-to-do gentlemen are drinking wine out of fine crystal stemware, and several are smoking clay pipes. Someone has just proposed a toast.Source: Anonymous, The Toast, c. 1810%u20131815.Question to Consider: How is alcohol, particularly wine, depicted as an element of well-to-do society in post-Revolutionary America?Analyzing Historical Evidence: Who was the likely intended audience of the painting? John P. Nugent Collection, Newburgh, Indiana.%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.