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          6. Thomas Handasyd Perkins

          Boston slave trader and opium smuggler (–)

          ColonelThomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins (December 15, – January 11, ), was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family.

          Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune. As a young man, he traded slaves in Saint-Domingue, worked as a maritime fur trader trading furs from the American Northwest to China, and then turned to smuggling Turkish opium into China.[1][2] His philanthropic contributions include the Perkins School for the Blind, renamed in his honor; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; McLean Hospital; along with having a hand in founding the Massachusetts General Hospital.

          Early life

          Perkins was born on December 15, , in Boston, Massachusetts.[3] His parents, James Perkins and Elizabeth Peck, had ten children in eighteen years. His nephew John Perkins Cush