Smugglers' World
Subtitle: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
Publisher: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781469636887
Subjects: Smuggling; Venezuela, economic conditions; Spain, colonies, america
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"--