Exporting the Revolution: American Revolutionaries in the Indies Trade

By Dane A. Morrison In April of 1791, as Capt. Joseph Ingraham of Boston navigated the brigantine Hope through the central Pacific, he encountered a set of islands unmarked on any of the nautical maps he carried.  The Hope was en route to the treacherous waters of the Northwest Coast to find otter pelts for the China trade, part of […]