If you're curious about opium smuggling, cheap bills, & what 19th-century Americans had to do with it all, can watch me chop it up on C-SPAN2 during primetime, this Sat (6/3), 6:55pm, Eastern (also avail. starting next Monday at: https://c-span.org/video/?523986-1/trading-freedom )
<em>Trading Freedom</em>

Author Dael Norwood discussed the United States' monetary, political, and psychological intertwining with China dating from the late 1700s. LancasterHistory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, hosted this event.

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