Contraband (Other Keyword)
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On 21 May 1725 the Spanish merchant vessel Nuestra Señora de Begoña wrecked in La Caleta de Caucedo on the south coast of Hispaniola. While there was no loss of life, contemporary legal texts pertaining to the sinking event document the complete loss of ship and cargo, ineffective salvage efforts, and the conviction of its captain for contraband silver. Indiana University has conducted excavations of the shoreward spillage area of the Nuestra Señora de Begoña since 2010. Preliminary findings...
Cacao and Criollo-ware: Historical Archaeology of Contraband between Curaçao, Bonaire, and Venezuela, 17th–18th Century (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 17th and 18th century, Curaçaoan Sephardim, enslaved Africans, freedpeople, maroons, Amerindians, pardos, and Europeans on Dutch Curaçao and Bonaire and in the Spanish Province of Venezuela created a bustling informal and moral economy centered around prized Venezuelan cacao and vital everyday necessities including simple...
Contraband in Spanish Colonial Ships
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From Cod Fishing to Bottle Fishing: Saint-Pierre et Miquelon During the Prohibition Era (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nothing speaks more of smuggling, and illicit activities than a small forgotten island. Such is the case for Saint-Pierre et Miquelon where contraband was and still is a tradition. In the 19th century (and most probably before that), it is known that French fisherfolks were trading alcohol...
Illicit Trade Networks in Spanish Texas (2015)
This poster presents the results of an investigation of the contraband market and frontier trade networks that existed in Spanish Colonial and Mexican Texas. The archaeological record dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries in San Antonio is defined by the appearance of English-made goods, predominately refined English earthenwares, illegally imported from New Orleans. This investigation compared artifact collections and documents from the Bexar Archives spanning the Colonial Period...