"That Cursed Evil Rum": The Trustees' Prohibition Policy in Colonial Georgia.

The article presents an examination into the political debate over the drinking of alcoholic beverages in colonial Georgia in the first half of the 18th-century. Details are given noting the place of distilleries and the alcohol trade in colonial life, the initial mandates of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America prohibiting the sale or consumption of hard liquor in the 1720s and 1730s, and the drawn out civil resistance to the move. An in-depth account of the public debate and controversy which eventually overturned the law is then given.