Do you know that John Hancock was a smuggler?
Smuggling presented a large problem for the imperial governments of Great Britain and France during the colonial period.
Eugene Tesdahl, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, joins us to discuss the early American business of smuggling and his involvement with living history as a French and Indian War-era re-enactor.
Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/021
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