The Smuggler's Secrets

The Smuggler's Secrets is a Historical Character Mystery that is part of Caroline's books.

Characters

From the Central Series

• Caroline Abbott
• Lydia Livingston
• Aaron Livingston
• Martha Livingston
• Mr. Sinclair
• Mrs. Sinclair

Introduced

• Sidney Lennox
• Mr. and Mrs. Zahn
• Peter Zahn
• Flora Pemberton
• Mr. Pemberton
• Mr. and Mrs. Skelley
• Mr. and Mrs. Aabink

Chapter By Chapter Summary

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".