Samuel Hodges, Jr., and the Symbiosis of Slave and "Legitimate" Trades, 1810s-1820s

In fact scarcely a hundred pounds of Tobacco or Powder that is sold but what sooner or later is used for purchasing slaves though it may go through half a dozen hands first (Enoch Richmond Ware, informed that several slave vessels were loading in the Pongo River).1 During the last decades of the eig...

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