bs2<p>&gt; "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.<br>&gt; And money earned selling slaves helped fund the China trade.<br> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/DaelNorwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DaelNorwood</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/SlaveTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlaveTrade</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/DrugTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugTrade</span></a> for the <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/BostonBrahmins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BostonBrahmins</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/ChinaTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChinaTrade</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/USChinaTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USChinaTrade</span></a></p>