Smugglers' World
An edition of Smugglers' World (2018)
Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
By Jesse Cromwell
Publish Date
2018
Publisher
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Language
eng
Pages
336
Description:
"The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods. They found a solution in exchanging cacao, a coveted luxury, for the necessities of life provided by contrabandists from the Dutch, English, and French Caribbean"--