At the end of the French and Indian, or Seven Years’ War in 1763, Great Britain claimed that smuggling was a BIG problem in its North American colonies and cracked down on the practice.
But just how BIG of a problem was smuggling in North America? Why did British North Americans choose to engage in the illegal importation of goods like tea? Was it really all about cheaper prices?
Fabrício Prado, Christian Koot, and Wim Klooster join us to explore the history of smuggling in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World and to investigate the connections between smuggling and the American Revolution.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048
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Complementary Blog Post
Eugene R.H. Tesdahl, “Smuggling, the American Revolution, and the Riverine Highway”
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Episode 036: Abigail Swingen, Competing Visions of Empire
Episode 098: Gautham Rao, Birth of the American Tax Man
Episode 112: The Tea Crisis of 1773
Episode 121: Wim Klooster, The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World
Episode 139: Andrés Resédez, The Other Slavery: Indian Enslavement in the Americas
Episode 158: The Revolutionaries’ Army
Episode 159: Serena Zabin, Dangerous Economies
Episode 160: The Politics of Tea
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