Jacob probably already knew this, but I did not. "Tippling laws were a common feature of slave societies in the U.S. According to the legal historian Judge Leon Higginbotham, at least since 1698 blacks, enslaved and free, were prohibited from buying and selling liquor."
Project MUSE - Tipling Toward Freedom: Alcohol and Emancipation
In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, tippling laws outlawed the sale, gift, or loan of "spirituous or vinous liquors" to enslaved Negroes or free blacks without written permission. By law it was illegal for any black person to enter a tavern or coffee-house where liquor was sold. The law limited the mobility of black people and their ability to buy, sell, or trade. The act was intended to prevent insurrection, to maintain tranquility by nipping "riots, breaches of the peace, disorderly and indecent conduct, and vagrancy" in the bud.1 Tippling was about more than feeling fine and mellow, it was about a world teeming with outrages. Blacks were out drinking, some had their own money, they gathered in groups on street corners, and behind closed doors. They violated laws meant to hold them captive by choosing where to go, when, or what to do with their own bodies. Blacks were out...
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