To Traschel: start with Denise Herd, `We cannot stagger to freedom': a
history Blacks and alcohol in American politics, pp. 141-186 in Leon Brill
and Charles Winick, Yearbook of Substance Use and Abuse, vol. 3, 1985
(New york: Human Sciences Press).  There's also some mention in
Genovese, Roll Jordan Roll.
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