Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America by Andreas Peter

Author:Andreas, Peter [Andreas, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-01-16T07:00:00+00:00

If I wished to defend myself, I have precedent right out of American history for my rum running enterprises. Americans, since the beginning of this nation, have always kicked holes in the laws they resented. The Stamp Act was law, wasn’t it? Men who broke it are called “patriots” today. Sometimes I wonder what the rum runners will be called a century from now. The Boston Tea Party wasn’t exactly a legal expedition, either. The Fugitive Slave Act was once as much law of the land as Volstead’s legislation. I went to jail for the crime of conspiracy. Well, lots of our best ancestors conspired to break the Fugitive Slave Law, too, and established the underground railway to get runaway Negroes safely into Canada.

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