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

Now if no envious competitor presents himself the prospects could not well be better-that is if my Sierra Leone Tobacco will suit for the slave trade. No! What am I to know for what purposes it is to [be] sold? I sell for produce or money. The use of it afterwards, certainly [I] am not accountable for. 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 eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, western African commerce was ...

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