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[–]iraelmossadreddit 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

spez's family the co-owner of reddit possibly made their fortune by selling fast ships used to outrun slave blockades/the coast guard

edit: I swear last time I could googled I could find something about a huffman ship builder who build ships used for slave running after importation was banned

he grew up pretty close to spook city and mount weather

here's something about one huffman selling or buying a slave

Perry, Thornton Tayloe (1892–1981), collector, Berkeley County, W.Va., miscellaneous papers, 1735–1943. 83 items. Mss1P4299f. Microfilm reel C91. Miscellaneous small collections, loose correspondence, accounts, legal and other papers from Berkeley County, W.Va., collected by Thornton Tayloe Perry (of Charles Town, W.Va.). Included in section 3 is a slave bill of sale, 1818, between John Huffman and William Roach.