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  2. History of the United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia

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    Clipper ship sailing card for the "Free Trade," printed by Nesbitt & Co., New York, early 1860s. Decline in the use of clippers started with the economic slump following the Panic of 1857 and continued with the gradual introduction of the steamship. Although clippers could be much faster than the early steamships, clippers were ultimately ...

  3. Indian maritime history - Wikipedia

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    Indian maritime history begins during the 3rd millennium BCE when inhabitants of the Indus Valley initiated maritime trading contact with Mesopotamia. [1] India's long coastline, which occurred due to the protrusion of India's Deccan Plateau, helped it to make new trade relations with the Europeans, especially the Greeks, and the length of its coastline on the Indian Ocean is partly a reason ...

  4. Trade route - Wikipedia

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    In 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In the early 1990s, the nations of the European Union (the successor organization to the Common Market) undertook to remove all barriers to the free movement of trade and employment across their mutual borders."

  5. Merchant ship - Wikipedia

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    A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft , which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships , which are used for military purposes.

  6. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    They typically resided in fortresses on the coasts, where they waited for Africans to provide them captured slaves from the interior in exchange for goods. Cases of European merchants kidnapping free Africans into slavery often resulted in fierce retaliation from Africans, who could momentarily stop trade and even capture or kill Europeans. [182]

  7. Lex mercatoria - Wikipedia

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    We find reference to the law merchant as early as 13 Edw. 4 (1473/4): "'the king has jurisdiction over them [merchants] to put them to stand (estoyer) to right, etc., but this will be 'according to the laws of nature' (secundum legem naturae) which is called by some 'law merchant', which is universal law for everyone (tout le monde)."

  8. Memphis Cotton Exchange - Wikipedia

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    Once established, the exchange produced rules and regulation on cotton trading and set standards for buying and pricing cotton in Memphis and the mid-South. The exchange developed a method for grading cotton to which members agreed. It operated as a "spot market" and never developed futures trading except for two short-lived experiments.

  9. Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade - Wikipedia

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    He notes that Faber's book is "the latest, least polemical, and arguably most important contribution" to the growing literature on Jews and the slave trade, reinforcing the academic consensus "that the Jewish role in the trade was minimal", accounting to maybe several percent of the American slave trade, and likely less than one percent of the ...

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