The Boston Athenaeum acknowledges its connections to the opium trade through the Perkins Brothers, particularly Thomas Handasyd Perkins. The institution, along with others in Boston like Massachusetts General Hospital and the Perkins School for the Blind, was significantly funded by wealth accumula ...
Xiaoming Guo · Follow Born, lived and worked in China. 8mo Let’s begin with the American blue blood of wealthy American aristocrats. The triangular trade of opium, tea, and silver of Russell Co. is the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Walbridge_Perkins https://www.britannica.com/money/George-Walbridge-Perkins related James Perkins: Slave Trader, Enslaver and Opium Smuggler https://www.geni.com/people/George-Perkins/6000000014736791945 https://www.geni.com/peopl ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Aspinwall Charles L. M. H. McCulloch Joseph E. W. A. G. H. Whipple https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-03-02-0098 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Whipple_Jr. Joseph E. W. A. G. H. Whipple's ful ...