During the Islamic Golden Age, scientists discovered a new wine distillation technique which led to the creation of hard liquor. By the 15th century, distilled wine was purely a pleasure drink. Through European exploration, distilled wine spread to Africa. Slave traders would often accept payment in the form of alcohol which the europeans had no problem providing. This is because Rum was a byproduct of sugar and they had slaves work at sugar plantations therefore the more slaves the more sugar, the more sugar the more rum, and the more rum the more slaves they could buy which means that rum made slavery self sufficient. American colonists relied on imported wine which would usually spoil by the time it made it to the colonese so when they discovered
