The Asiento and the War of Jenkin’s Ear

[vtsaogames]

An exhibit at the New York Oublic Library on 42nd Street inspired this post.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[willz]

Nice post.

[Guy Farrish]

Good post.

Strange how your perspective alters over the years.

I remember the War of Jenkins Ear because of the silly name and an illustration in a school text book from when I was c10yrs old. There was a plucky British chap having been brutally attacked by a rather shifty looking type in too much finery on a ship’s deck.

Nobody mentioned slave trading when we did it at school.

Finite volume mercantilism, what a fine idea to go to war about, not to mention the ‘goods’ being traded.

 

[Steve Johnson]

As Guy said, we only ever got the British basic point of view here and never had the salvery and mercantile angle told at all.

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