Genealogy Projects tagged with robber baron on the Geni Family Tree

American Opium Merchants

* Hon’ble John’s Band* "When we sold the Heathen nations rum and opium in rolls,* And the Missionaries went along to save their sinful souls." --The Old Clipper Days, Julian S. Cutler from The Boodle Boys RA Kris Millegan©2000 Many historians discount the American activity in the opium trade, generally concentrating on the British and their mercantilist trading syndicate, the British East India...