Two men found bottles with pustulous mould in a 250-year-old mansion's cellar, tasting what became the world's oldest rum.
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A moldy cellar becomes a sharp map of rum, slavery, and British wealth.
A moldy basement in Harewood House opens onto a story about rum, sugar, and the wealth built around them. The episode begins in the cold, damp cellar rooms under one of the grandest country homes in Britain, where bottles covered in mould become a clue to a much larger history.
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For the day a moldy cellar at Harewood House opened onto rum, sugar, and slavery.
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