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  1. > "The kind of expertise they [Perkins and Co.] bring to [opium] in terms of managing goods and finances is something that starts in the slave trade," says Dael Norwood, an assistant professor of history at Binghamton University who studies 19th-century U.S.-China trade.
    > And money earned selling slaves helped fund the China trade.
    #DaelNorwood #SlaveTrade and #DrugTrade for the #BostonBrahmins #ChinaTrade #USChinaTrade