"<span>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
It was A. Bartering. Coins weren't existent that far back, international trade didn't exist because no one knew about the continents to the west, and it definitly wasn't free trade. Nothing was ever free.