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To: Red Badger

Charles’ ancestor King James I was against tobacco use at first...until he realized that the government could make money from it.


25 posted on 11/07/2023 12:21:49 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

And James II formed the Royal African Company to sell slaves to the colonies. Of course Charles can disclaim that ancestry since his ancestors were in various German states at the time


37 posted on 11/07/2023 12:28:08 PM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
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