# Americans with Attitudes: Smuggling in Colonial America

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/americans-with-attitudes-smuggling-in-colonial-america>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** September 3, 2014

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George H. Smith explores America’s proud history of smuggling in the colonies—and the disastrous attempts by the British to put an end to it.

[Originally published in essay form on December 6, 2011.](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/excursions/americans-attitudes-smuggling-colonial-america)

_Narrated by James Foster._