5 sentences with 'molasses'
Example sentences and phrases with the word molasses and other words derived from it.
• « The result was refined sugar, while the leftover molasses could be distilled into rum. Each step was laborious and often dangerous. »
• « The ordinance also listed "enumerated articles" that could only be carried to England or the English colonies, including the most lucrative goods such as sugar and tobacco, as well as indigo, rice, molasses and naval stores such as turpentine. »
• « The Plantation Duties Act taxed enumerated goods exported from one colony to another, a measure aimed primarily at New Englanders, who transported large quantities of molasses from the West Indies, including molasses smuggled from the French-owned islands, to be made into rum. »
• « The 1733 Act imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on raw sugar, rum and molasses from British competitors, the French and the Dutch, in order to give an advantage to British producers in the West Indies. »
• « Grenville also lobbied Parliament to pass the Sugar Act of 1764, which effectively halved taxes on British molasses from six pence per gallon to three. »