288 Smugglers & Patriots in the 18th-Century Atlantic

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In what ways did the Atlantic World contribute to the American Revolution? Empire, slavery, and constant warfare interacted with each other in the Atlantic World. Which brings us to our question: In what ways did the Atlantic World and its issues contribute to the American Revolution? Tyson Reeder, an editor of the Papers of James Madison and an affiliated assistant professor at the University of Virginia, is a scholar of the Atlantic World, who will help us see how smuggling and trade in the Luso-Atlantic, or Portuguese-Atlantic, World contributed to the development and spread of ideas about free trade and republicanism. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/288 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 090: Caitlin Fitz, Age of American Revolutions 🎧 Episode 099: Mark Hanna, Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World 🎧 Episode 121: Wim Klooster, The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World 🎧 Episode 161: Smuggling in the American Revolution 🎧 Episode 229: Patrick Griffin, The Townshend Moment 🎧 Episode 254: Jeffrey Sklansky, The Money Question in Early America REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the Oma
0:03.0	Andro Institute.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to episode 288 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:17.5	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and
0:22.0	events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:26.0	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:29.0	In what ways did the Atlantic world contribute to the American Revolution?
0:33.0	When we try to better understand the international, inter-imperial, or even inter-colonial dimensions
0:38.6	of early America, we almost always investigate aspects of the Atlantic world.
0:43.8	And that's because the 18th century Atlantic world
0:46.6	was a diverse and well-connected place.
0:49.0	In fact, it was a place made up of many places. The British Atlantic world, the French Atlantic
0:54.7	world, the Dutch Atlantic world. The Atlantic world was also a place where the
0:59.2	issues of empire, slavery, and constant warfare interacted with each other.
1:04.4	Which brings us back to our question.
1:06.6	In what ways did the Atlantic world and its issues contribute to the American Revolution?
1:12.0	Tyson Reader is an editor of the Papers of James Madison
1:15.2	and an affiliated assistant professor of history
1:17.8	at the University of Virginia.
1:19.7	Tyson is a scholar of the Atlantic world,
1:22.3	and he specializes in the Luso Atlantic or Portuguese
1:25.2	Atlantic world.
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