Smuggler Nation (78 page)

cocaine trafficking,
279
–80

money laundering,
280

smuggling during Prohibition,
236
–38,
280

See also
Nassau, Bahamas

Bailyn, Bernard,
14
,
15
,
359
n
2,
359
n
4

Bainbridge, William,
79

Baker, Lafayette C.,
166

Balkans,
346

Balogh, Brian,
369
n
4

Baltimore, Md.

Civil War,
166
–67

Embargo Act,
373
n
81

and Haitian Revolution,
71

and Mann Act,
206

McGregor’s invasion,
146

shipbuilding,
141

War of 1812,
374
n
3

Banker, John, Jr.,
88

Barataria Bay, Laffite smuggling base,
89
–92,
93

Barney, Hiram,
173

Barrow, Clyde,
38
,
359
n
11,
362
n
3

Bartlett, Josiah,
366
n
44

Bayer and Company,
254
–56,
255

Beach, John,
122

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de,
48
–50

Beecher, Herbert,
216

beef smuggling,
8
,
86

Bell, Ernest A.,
204

Beluche, Renato,
95

Ben-Atar, Doron,
101
–02,
104
,
377
n
1,
377
n
4

Bennett, William,
287

Benton, Thomas Hart,
123
–24

Berkshire, Frank,
224

Bermuda,
48
,
54
,
59
,
161
,
172

Bernard, Francis,
24
,
33

Betts, Samuel,
141

Bingay, Malcolm,
246

Bingham, William,
52
,
53
,
54
–55

birth control

coining of term,
200

See also
contraceptives

Block, Alan,
263

Block, Ferdinand,
189

Block Island, R.I.,
87

Boeing,
247
,
324

Bollan, William,
21
,
361
n
40

Bond, Phineas,
103
,
105

border fences

early,
293
–94

recent,
314
,
322
–23,
323

Secure Fence Act,
322
–23

Border Patrol.
See
U.S. Border Patrol

borders

cross-border economic flows,
6

porosity,
3
–4

role of revenue in policing,
7
–8

See also
border fences; immigration control; U.S. Border Patrol; U.S.-Canada border; U.S. Customs Service; U.S.-Mexico border Bosnia,
349

Boston Manufacturing Company,
111

Boston, Mass.,
18

Boston Massacre,
38

Boston Tea Party,
4
,
40
–43,
239

British colonial customs,
36
–38

and British colonial trade laws,
29
–30,
37
–38

Civil War trading,
172
–73

colonial smuggling,
13
,
18
,
360
n
23,
361
n
40

during American Revolution,
50

and Embargo Act,
77

fugitive slave rescues,
152

John Hancock’s trial,
37
–38

post-World War I,
229

and Prohibition,
237
,
241

shipbuilding,
141

Boston Massacre,
38

Boston Tea Party,
4
,
40
–43,
239

Bosworth, Samuel,
137
–38

Bowie, James,
145
,
148

Bracero Program,
296
–97

Brandes, Stuart,
59
,
368
n
74

Braun, Marcus,
218

Brazil,
130
,
131
,
142
–43

Brecher, Edward M.,
411
n
85

Brent, Charles H.,
258
,
259

bribery

Civil War,
167
,
168
,
172

colonial era,
14
,
17
,
20
–21,
31
,
33
,
38
,
360
n
23,
362
n
4

drug trafficking,
264
,
280
,
316

fur-for-alcohol trading,
125

human smuggling,
307
–08

and Jean Laffite,
92
,
96

pornography traders,
196
–97

Prohibition,
232
–33,
242
,
245

smuggling of consumer goods,
295

U.S. Customs Service,
180
,
182

See also
corruption

Bristol, R.I.,
135
,
137
–39

British Board of Trade,
24
–25

British East India Company,
9
,
41
,
66

British Proclamation of 1763,
209

British trade laws

Acts of Navigation and Trade,
13
–14,
22

American Prohibitory Act,
43

Coercive Acts,
41

crackdown and enforcement of,
30
–44

“hovering vessel” legislation (1764),
33

import and export duties,
14

Pirate Act of 1777,
51

revisions to,
31
–32,
33
,
36
–37,
38
,
41
,
43

subversion of,
15
–22,
29
–30,
361
n
40

Townsend Acts of 1767,
36
–37,
38

writs of assistance,
31
,
32
,
34
,
342

See also
Molasses Act; Sugar Act

British West Indies

Civil War trade,
173

and Molasses Act,
17

post-revolution trade,
65

Brodie, Jane Farrell,
198
,
396
n
26

Bronfman, Samuel,
248

Brown family,
24
,
47

Brown, John,
40

disregard for customs service,
64

Gaspee
Affair,
1
–2,
39
,
40

Slave Trade Act,
40

slave trafficking,
137
,
138
,
354
,
355

as smuggler,
1
,
24
,
47
,
52
,
354
,
355

Brown, Moses,
47
,
109
,
110
,
136
–37,
354

Brown, Nicholas,
58
–59,
69

Brown University,
1
,
40
,
353
–54,
355

Brown, Wilburt,
96

Bryan, William Jennings,
259

Buchalter, Louis,
270

Buchanan, James,
134
,
135

Buell, Abel,
107

Buloch, James D.,
155

Bureau of Drug Abuse Control,
275

Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD),
275

Bureau of Prisons,
288

Burgoyne, John,
49

Burns, Anthony,
152

Bush, George H.W.,
281
,
284
–85,
285
,
288
,
312
,
314

Bush, George W.,
321
,
325

Butler, Benjamin F.,
170

Butler, William (Mass.),
170

Butler, William (New York),
210

Butts, Edward,
382
n
41

Cabot, Andrew,
51

Cabot, John,
51

Cadagan, George,
119

Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe de,
381
n
41

Calderón, Felipe,
327
,
328
,
329

Calhoun, John C.,
125

Cali cartel,
280
,
289

California

anti-immigrant backlash,
212
,
300

illegal labor,
300
–301

marijuana growers,
281

Camarena, Kiki,
311
–12

Cambodia,
337

Canada

British loyalty,
363
n
13

fugitive slaves,
131
,
150

and War of 1812,
82
,
97
,
373
n
2

See also
U.S.-Canada border

Canadian Pacific Railway,
216

Canadian Pacific Steamship Company,
215

Canby, E.R.,
172

cannabis.
See
marijuana (cannabis)

Cape Cod, Mass.,
21

Capone, Al,
234
–35,
244

Caribbean

cocaine trafficking,
279
–80,
313
,
335

See also
Bahamas; Haiti; St. Eustatius; West Indies

Carleton, Guy,
363
n
13

Carroll v. United States
,
249

carrying trade

post-Revolutionary,
68
,
70
,
71

slave trade,
131
,
136
–43

Carter, Jimmy,
295
–96

Cassiday, George,
233

Cass, Lewis,
124
,
126

Central Falls, R.I.,
354

Chambliss, William,
263

Chandler, Zachariah,
168

Charleston, S.C.,
146

during Civil War,
155
,
159
,
161
,
164

during Napoleonic Wars,
68

and Haitian Revolution,
72

slave trade,
139
–40

Chase, Salmon T.,
166
,
167
,
173
,
390
n
45

Cheney, Dick,
284

Chertoff, Michael,
325

Chester, John,
57
–58

Chicago, Ill., fur trade,
123
,
382
n
42

China

Chinese nationalists,
271
,
272

crackdown on drugs and traffickers,
272

international property theft,
5
,
347
,
423
n
51

See also
Chinese migrants; opium

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882),
212
–13,
215
,
216
,
224
,
400
n
23

Chinese migrants

backlash against,
212
–13

entry through Canada,
212
,
215
–17,
400
n
25,
401
n
40–41

entry through Mexico,
208
,
212
,
217
–26,
293
,
306
,
400
n
25

images,
212
,
213

and immigration control,
208
,
211
–15,
336
,
399
n
13,
399
n
20

and opium regulations,
257
–58

as U.S. laborers,
212
,
213
–14,
399
n
10–11

See also
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Chippewa tribe,
126

Churchill, Winston,
236

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

in Afghanistan,
283
,
346

antidrug efforts,
270
,
286
–87

and Cold War geopolitics,
271
,
276

and Contra rebels,
283

and French Connection,
347

cigarettes.
See
tobacco

Civil War

arms smuggling,
5
,
9
,
154

British neutrality,
156
–57

casualty figures,
154

fugitive slaves,
153
,
292

morphine addictions,
256

naval blockade on South,
154
,
156
,
157
,
158
,
159
,
164
–65

and overseas industry,
156

pornography peddling to soldiers,
192
–93

seagoing right-of-mutual-search,
134
,
141
–42,
384
n
10,
384
n
12

trading with enemy,
165
–73

See also
Confederacy

Claiborne, William C.,
91
–92,
93
,
94
,
94