Molasses to Rum, to Slavery?

I saw 17 76, the musical. The song he sang was called molasses to rum. It was a rumination on the triangle trade. All of the northerners in the congress were essentially arguing that slavery was this conceit of the south. And so rutledge jumps up on his chair and turns t northern delegates and says, molasses to rum, to slaves. Oh, what a beautiful watz. You dance with us. We dance with you in molasses and rum. And slaves, chilling, chilling. Sailed the ships out of boston laden with old seaid gleam, whose fortunes are made in the triangleTrade. I give you a toast