Event
Juan Jose Ponce Vázquez: Smuggling for a Living in the Early Spanish Caribbean
3620 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA
Join us for an external speaker talk (CLALSES) on October 7 at 12pm with historian Juan José Ponce Vázquez, hosted by Marcy Norton, Associate Professor of History at Penn. In this presentation Vazquez will speak of 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.
Featured Speaker
Juan J. Ponce Vazquez is an Associate Professor of History at The University of Alabama. He is the author of Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 (Cambridge, 2020), which won the 2021 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award by the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).
This event is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Africana Studies at Penn.