How Laura Keene prolonged the African slave trade

[Rsmyth]

Gene, not at all. Did Laura Keene have any idea how those ivory keys got in her piano? Probably not. It's just ironic how two terrible tragedies are connected by a piano. Also ironic how Conneticut abolitionists (Pratt and Read) thought that elephants were a renewable resource and had to have known the cost in human lives to transport the ivory to the African coast. Some sources say between 2-5 slaves perished for every tusk. 90% of all ivory imported to the U.S. made its way to Deep River, CT.