Juan Jose Ponce Vázquez presents "Smuggling for a Living in the Early Spanish Caribbean"

 

Join us for an external speaker talk (CLALSES) on October 7 at 12pm with historian Juan José Ponce Vázquez. Hosted by Marcy Norton, Associate Professor of History at Penn. This is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Africana Studies.

 

In this presentation I will talk about how a marginalized colony in the Spanish Caribbean managed to subvert colonial institutions to become an important contraband center, transforming the lives of its inhabitants, their neighbors, and having an impact in the inter-imperial battles to supremacy in the Caribbean throughout the seventeenth century.

 

Juan José Ponce Vázquez is an Associate Professor of History at The University of Alabama. He is the author of Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 (Cambridge, 2020), which won 2021 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award by the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).