Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763 (Fire Ant Books) - Softcover

Harman, Joyce Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817351205 ISBN 13: 9780817351205

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2004

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Book by Harman Joyce Elizabeth

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To escape starvation, the governors of St. Augustine ignored official policy and allowed illicit traders from the British colonies to sell rice beef, pork, and other supplies for gold or silyer.... The author has extracted worthwhile information on privateering and smuggling, occupations that left few records. - Journal of American History.

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Trade and Privateering examines the illegal yet highly profitable and mutually beneficial trade between Spanish Florida and the English colonies on the eastern seaboard in the mid-18th century. In St. Augustine, the arrival of subsidies from Spain was erratic, causing shortages of food and supplies, so authorities ignored the restrictions on trade with foreign colonies and welcomed British goods. Likewise, the British colonists sought Spanish products from Florida, especially oranges. But when England and Spain became declared enemies in the War of Jenkins' Ear and the French and Indian Wars, this tacit trade arrangement was threatened, and the result was a rise of privateering in the region. Rather than do without Spanish goods, the English began to attack and capture Spanish vessels with their cargoes at sea. Likewise, the Spaniards resorted to privateering as a means of steadily supplying the Florida colony. Harman concludes that, both willingly and unwillingly, the English colonies helped their Spanish neighbor to sustain its position in the Southeast.

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• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0817351205
• ISBN 13: 9780817351205
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 115