Sentences with phrase «antebellum trading city»
Ships carrying African slaves and goods to the antebellum trading city also brought mosquitoes that flourished in the swampy bayous, spreading plagues of yellow fever and malaria.
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It describes the fortunes of the Lehman clan, Jews having emigrated from Germany, to antebellum Montgomery, Alabama, and later New York City, and what they did as a commodity trading firm that morphed into venture capital, and then investment banking.