Did you mean: How would a Chinese merchant might support or condemn the opium trade. What is the Historical perspective and their position on the opium trade?
Opium trade, in Chinese history, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China. The British used the profits from the sale of opium to purchase such Chinese luxury goods as porcelain, silk, and tea, which were in great demand in the West.
It was a pivotal case in early civil rights law and held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the privileges and immunities of citizenship of a state.
The case was called the Dred Scott V. Sandford. The case was decided by the Supreme Court after Scott said he should be freed as he lived in a place where slavery was illegal.
