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{{infobox book
| name        = The Smuggler's Secrets
| image       = TheSmugglersSecrets.jpg
| imagewidth  = 300px
| caption     = The cover of The Smuggler's Secrets.
| published   = 2015
| author      = [[Kathleen Ernst]]
| illustrator = [[Juliana Kolesova]]
| isbn        = 1609589165
| setting     = Summer, 1813<ref> Pg 5. ''[Caroline had] been able to go home for a short visit, but now Uncle Aaron and Lydia had come to fetch her again.'' Caroline returned to Sackets Harbor during the beginning of [[Traitor in the Shipyard]].</ref>
| related     = [[List of Caroline's Books|Caroline's Series]]
| related2    = After the events of ''[[Traitor in the Shipyard]]''
}}

'''The Smuggler's Secrets''' is a [[Historical Character Mysteries|Historical Character Mystery]] that is part of [[List of Caroline's Books|Caroline's books.]]

==Characters==

===From the [[Central Series]]===

* [[Caroline Abbott]]
* [[Lydia Livingston]]
* [[Aaron Livingston]]
* [[Martha Livingston]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair|Mr. Sinclair]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair|Mrs. Sinclair]]

===Introduced===

* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Sidney Lennox|Sidney Lennox]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Mr. and Mrs. Zahn|Mr. and Mrs. Zahn]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Peter Zahn|Peter Zahn]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Flora Pemberton|Flora Pemberton]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Mr. Pemberton|Mr. Pemberton]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Mr. and Mrs. Skelley|Mr. and Mrs. Skelley]]
* [[Minor Characters in Caroline's Series#Mr. and Mrs. Aabink|Mr. and Mrs. Aabink]]

==Chapter By Chapter Summary==

===Chapter One: Trouble on the Road===

===Chapter Two: Smugglers!===

===Chapter Three: An Argument===

===Chapter Four: Searching for Clues===

===Chapter Five: A Terrible Loss===

===Chapter Six: An Unexpected Discovery===

===Chapter Seven: Suspicions===

===Chapter Eight: The Deputies===

===Chapter Nine: Fire!===

===Chapter Ten: Under Arrest===

===Chapter Eleven: Likely Suspects===

===Chapter Twelve: The Quilting Bee===

===Chapter Thirteen: Searching for Evidence===

===Chapter Fourteen: Answers--and More Questions===

===Chapter Fifteen: Back to Pemberton Cove===

===Chapter Sixteen: A New Suspect===

===Chapter Seventeen: Home Again===

===[[Looking Back|Inside Caroline's World]]===
Discusses smuggling during the War of 1812. Topics covered:

* Relations between the United States and Upper Canada prior to the war's beginning, with trading regulations changing as tension increased between the two countries.
* Americans being forced to only buy American-made products and to only sell their goods within the United States, due to a law passed in 1807.
* The new trading laws being passed to prove the United States was strong and independent, and to create hardships for British colonists.
* Hardships Americans faced because of the new trading laws, especially for farmers and shopkeepers along the border who found it easier and cheaper to trade with buyers in Upper Canada.
* The increase in payment through smuggling once the war began, with the British willing to pay high prices for food to feed their troops.
* Smuggling earning more income through the selling of potash, and the use of potash to make cloth and gunpowder in English factories.
* The attempts to stop smuggling being difficult due to displeasure over the new trading laws, and the sympathy felt towards struggling farmers and the smugglers.
* Jacob Jennings Brown, a businessman so well known for smuggling that he acquired the nickname "Potash Brown".

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