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Excerpt from Smuggling in the American Colonies at the Outbreak of the Revolution: With Special Reference to the West Indies TradeThe endeavor has been made to eliminate from this essay the many features of the British colonial and commercial systems which do not have a very direct bearing on the question of smuggling, but it has seemed necessary to show cause why many of these features are without special significance in a discussion of the e...
Excerpt from Smuggling in the American Colonies at the Outbreak of the Revolution: With Special Reference to the West Indies Trade
The endeavor has been made to eliminate from this essay the many features of the British colonial and commercial systems which do not have a very direct bearing on the question of smuggling, but it has seemed necessary to show cause why many of these features are without special significance in a discussion of the...
Mr. McClellan seeks "to establish the particular function which smuggling-and especially that in connection with the West Indies trade"-performed in relation to the political and economic elements of the Revolution. The first two chapters provide an over