Event
Smuggling for a Living in the Early Spanish Caribbean
Presented by the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies
Juan Jose Ponce Vázquez
Join the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies for an external speaker talk (CLALSES) on October 7 at 12pm with historian Juan José Ponce Vázquez. In this presentation, Ponce Vázquez 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. This event is 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.