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DESCRIPTION:"The First 'Panama Papers': Smuggling and Organized Crime in th
 e Atlantic World\, 1739-1760"\n\nRSVP for pre-circulated papers.\n\nThey m
 ocked colonial authorities\, declared their disobedience of the king\, mas
 sacred people\, and defrauded the Royal Treasury through impressive illega
 l trade reaching beyond the borders of their home region. The over two hun
 dred and fifty smugglers who rebelled in Panama in the mid-1700s thus dese
 rve to be studied in their full complexity. Penonomé\, Natá\, Villa de L
 os Santos\, Las Cruces\, Portobelo and Panama City\, roads and rivers such
  as the Chagres and Coclé\, and neighboring Caribbean and Pacific shores\
 , served as enclaves and routes for the development of clandestine trading
 . This business both enriched and empowered smugglers\, as well as raised 
 the alarm among authorities at the local and imperial level\, in theory ch
 arged with weeding out fiscal fraud and other crimes against the majesty o
 f the king. Known as Apostolado de Penonomé\, Compañía de Natá\, and S
 acra Familia\, smuggler’s confederate associations were organized around
  1724\, taking advantage of the arrival of foreign ships\, which “malici
 ously” made landfall in Portobelo from different continental and insular
  strongholds such as Jamaica\, Saint-Domingue\, Curaçao\, and New England
 . Underpinned by a hierarchical structure led by Panama’s patricians\, w
 hose “leader and chief” was don Joseph Martínez Fajardo\, smuggling c
 onfederate societies managed to bribe\, defraud\, and carry out petty crim
 e as well as\, of course\, crimes against fiscal regulations and civil ord
 er outlined by Bourbon officials and their unparalleled legislative corpus
 . Towards 1748\, a good number of the confederate associates had been exec
 uted\, some thrown into jail or exiled\, and a few had escaped. There were
  several trials against them\, and their activities left a myriad of conse
 quences: a few years later\, officers from the Real Audiencia in Santa Fe\
 , the capital of the viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada\, discovere
 d that several magistrates of the now defunct Real Audiencia of Panama\, a
 s well as the city’s bishop\, had been associates of the smugglers\, pro
 viding them with legal help on more than once occasion. This story\, along
  with all its intricacies It's the subject that Sebastián Gómez Gonzále
 z will talk about in his lecture.\n\nSebastián Gómez González is Associ
 ate Professor of History at the University of Antioquia in Medellín\, Col
 ombia. He holds Master's and Doctoral degrees from the National Autonomous
  University of Mexico (UNAM). His research interests focus on the history 
 of the overseas territories disputed by the European empires between the 1
 6th and 18th centuries. His latest book\, Frontera Selvática. Españoles\
 , portugueses y su disputa por el noroccidente amazónico\, siglo XVIII wo
 n Colombia’s national prize for best historical research in 2013 awarded
  by the country’s Ministry of Culture and the Institute of Anthropology 
 and History.\n\nThe USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute has prov
 ided parking reservations for this event in the McCarthy Way Structure (fo
 rmerly Parking Structure X). Please use parking code: 234534.
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LOCATION:Social Sciences Building (SOS)\, 250
SUMMARY:American Origins with Sebastián Gómez González
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/american_origins_with_sebastia
 n_gomez_gonzalez
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
CATEGORIES:Conference/Symposia
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