Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots explores the complex interactions between the British and Portuguese empires amid revolutionary upheaval, highlighting the turbulent transnational exchanges involving merchants, smugglers, slave traders, and pirates operating outside legal boundaries. Tyson Reeder examines how US traders' aspirations for republican alliances clashed with the reality of a monarchical Brazil, ultimately revealing that both the United States and Brazil transitioned from envisioned republics to fellow slave powers as the Age of Revolution faded. Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, the audiobook provides a compelling look at this pivotal historical period.