Long before the Sacklers appeared on the scene, families like the Astors, the Peabodys, and the Delanos cemented their upper-crust status through the global trade in opium.
This a very important article , I have known of this from my own research for years , but EVERYONE needs to know how these early American elite made their money AND SLAVERY WAS EQUALLY INVOLVED , and financial manipulation, stock frauds , land thefts and trusts, and financing wars , and debt form the Revolutionary war , which America never really won . King George was even and original financier and bond holder Hamilton was agent of European bankers .
This a very important article , I have known of this from my own research for years , but EVERYONE needs to know how these early American elite made their money AND SLAVERY WAS EQUALLY INVOLVED , and financial manipulation, stock frauds , land thefts and trusts, and financing wars , and debt form the Revolutionary war , which America never really won . King George was even and original financier and bond holder Hamilton was agent of European bankers .