By BELINDA ROBINSON in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2023-02-23 11:41 A historic and grand mansion built in Boston in 1833 by a prominent local family has revealed its hidden history: It was built with profits from the China opium trade. The little-known origins of the mans ...
去麻省Salem游览,作为中国人或后代,应该特别了解这里的鸦片贩子。 完美时机,完美合作,这舅舅带去了至少三个外甥创建了鸦片帝国。暴利修建了美国西北地区的铁路网,舅舅自己出钱修建了美国第一条铁路就是 Quincy采石场去Bunker Hills的铁路。 铁路公司40年CEO Ben Forbes Thomas Handasy ...
First report of the Royal Commission on Opium https://archive.org/details/cu31924073053864/page/n9/mode/2up Speech on the opium trade by Temple, Frederick, 1821-1902 https://archive.org/details/opiumtrade00temp/page/n1/mode/2up Royal Comission of ...
"Since the opening years of the century, Perkins Co. had made a specialty of carrying Smyrna opium to Canton; so did Joseph Peabody and every Boston or Salem merchant who could get it." p277 https://archive.org/details/maritimehistoryo0000samu_s0c4/page/276/mode/2up?q=Chinese ...
Clipper ships traveled at blistering speeds but conditions on board were brutal, and opium was their most profitable cargo. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-clipper-ship-opium-trade-gold-rush