Thomas Handasyd Perkins
(1764-1854)
Boston slave trader and opium smuggler
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Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, or T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 – January 11, 1854), was a wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin. Starting with bequests from his grandfather and father-in-law, he amassed a huge fortune. As a young man, he was a slave trader in Haiti, a maritime Fur Trader, trading furs from the American Northwest to China, and then a major smuggler of Turkish opium into China. His philanthropic contributions include 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.
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15 December 1764 Boston, Massachusetts
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11 January 1854 (aged 89) Brookline, Massachusetts
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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