[Ditto]

The slavery meme was what yankees had to invoke, at the behest of their oh so righteous elitist former slave runners of Boston, who were then running in the china clipper/opium trade and importing coolie labor for the westward expansion railroad.

Those Damn Yankees ran the China Opium Trade too? Wow. Thanks for the history lesson. And all the years, I was under the impression that it was the British East India Company that had a monopoly on the Opium Trade with China.

Now you tell me it was really those rascally Yankees. The stuff you can learn from you neo-confederates is amazing. < / s>

[John S Mosby]

Check out Samuel Russell, for one. And one Chinese Hong member Howqua. This is just one name, many others in coastal NE.

You have it wrong, FRiend. And prior to that the good boston ships were in the slave trade up to their necks. It paid much better than whaling. Human trade from the get go. A little less /s OK?