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The Opium Fortunes: How America’s Elite Families Got Rich Selling Drugs to China

Roosevelt, Astor, Forbes, Yale, Harvard: They All Got Rich Selling Opium to China Roosevelt. Astor. Forbes. Yale. Harvard. You know these names. What you don't know? They all got rich the exact same way. Flooding China with opium. Thousands of tons. Millions addicted. Four hundred percent profit. And then they spent 200 years making sure you'd never find out. Until now. This video documents the historical evidence proving that America's most powerful families made their fortunes through industrial-scale opium smuggling to China in the 1800s. The shipping records exist. The letters survive. The account books are in archives. This isn't conspiracy theory. This is documented history that has been systematically omitted from mainstream education. 📚 DOCUMENTED RESEARCH SOURCES: *Primary Historical Sources:* "When America First Met China" by Eric Jay Dolin "The Opium Clippers" by Basil Lubbock "The Delano Influence" by Daniel W. Delano "Yankee Traders, Old Coasters, and African Middlemen" by George E. Brooks Jr. Shipping manifests and commercial ledgers (1800-1860) Personal correspondence in historical archives Russell and Company account books *Historical Archives:* Massachusetts Historical Society Peabody Essex Museum archives China Trade archives British East India Company records Yale University historical collections Harvard University archives --- 🔍 THE DELANO FAMILY - DOCUMENTED FACTS: *Warren Delano II (FDR's Grandfather):* "Warren Delano II was born in 1809 in Massachusetts. At 19 years old, he went to China to work for a trading company. By age 24, he was a partner in Russell and Company—the largest American opium trading firm in China." *Russell and Company Operations:* "Russell and Company wasn't just participating in opium trade. They dominated American involvement. They had offices in Canton (Guangzhou). They had clipper ships. They had connections with British opium growers in India. And they made millions." *Warren Delano's Career Timeline:* "Warren Delano ran the operation from 1833 to 1846. Thirteen years of opium smuggling. He returned to America a very wealthy man." *Evidence of Wealth:* "How wealthy? Rich enough to build a 40-room mansion in Newburgh, New York. Rich enough to send his children to the best schools. Rich enough that when he lost money in the Panic of 1857, he could go back to China, make another fortune in opium, and return even wealthier." *Connection to FDR:* "His daughter, Sara Delano, married James Roosevelt. Their son was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR grew up in wealth. Private tutors. Harvard. Political connections. All funded by opium money." *The Historical Irony:* "And here's the kicker. In 1935, while FDR was president, he signed the first federal laws strictly controlling drugs—the Marijuana Tax Act precursor and expansion of narcotic controls. The man whose family fortune came from selling drugs to Chinese people spent his presidency criminalizing drugs for Americans." 🔍 THE ASTOR FAMILY - DOCUMENTED FACTS: *John Jacob Astor's Fortune:* "John Jacob Astor. At one point the richest man in America. His wealth built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, funded libraries, created a dynasty. Where did the money come from? Furs, right? That's the story. He traded furs. True. But that's not where the real money came from. Opium." *Documented Wealth:* "By 1840, Astor was worth $20 million. That's $500 million in today's money. Most of it from opium profits. His great-grandson, John Jacob Astor IV, died on the Titanic as one of the richest men in the world. That wealth? Built on opium." *Legacy:* "The Astor family name is on libraries, museums, university buildings. All of it funded by drug money from China." *Historical Records:* Astor's shipping manifests and commercial records document Turkish opium purchases and China trade routes. The Macedonian's voyages are documented in maritime records at the Peabody Essex Museum. --- 🔍 THE FORBES FAMILY - DOCUMENTED FACTS: *Forbes Family Operations:* "Yes, that Forbes. Malcolm Forbes, the magazine publisher billionaire? His family fortune started in China. The Forbes family of Boston sent ships to China in the early 1800s. Robert Bennet Forbes and his brother John Murray Forbes were major opium traders." *Russell and Company Connection:* "They worked with Russell and Company—the same firm Warren Delano worked for. Robert Forbes captained clipper ships that carried opium. John Forbes invested the profits into railroads and became one of the wealthiest men in Boston." *Modern Legacy:* "Their descendants used that wealth to start Forbes Magazine. The family became American aristocracy. And it all started with opium." *Historical Erasure:* "John Murray Forbes is celebrated in Boston as a great businessman and philanthropist. There are statues of him. Buildings named after him. No one mentions the opium. It's been scrubbed from the official history."