"... it is difficult to rersist the conclusion that the outcry against reduction of the duty on tea from one shilling to three pence per pound was manufactured by colonial merchants who stood to lose from the suppression of the lucrative smuggling trade..."
First, it was actually a reduction of the duty on tea that was complained of in Boston.
Second, the same Northern shipping interests ran the domestic shipment of slaves to the South until the Civil War, not the South.
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