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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar''', nicknamed '''Cal Lamar''', was a Confederate slave trader and businessman.<br />
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Lamar was the son of [[Gazaway Bugg Lamar]] and Jane Meek Lamar (née Cresswell). He was the only child of Gazaway and Jane to survive the steamship ''Pulaski'' disaster.<ref name="wikipedia">Cf. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Augustus_Lafayette_Lamar Wikipedia]</ref><br />
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Having lost much of his fortune in the [[Panic of 1857]], Lamar sought to regain it through slave trading. He applied to transport passengers from Africa on the ship ''Richard Cobden'', but his cousin-in-law [[Howell Cobb]], then [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]], denied all three applications as he saw them to be a ruse to import slaves. Lamar responded by issuing an eleven-page pamphlet insulting Cobb.<ref name="wikipedia"/><br />
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When the [[War of Southern Independence]] broke out, he briefly served in the [[Confederate States Army]], but did not see much action. After the war, with a loan from his father's [[Bank of the Republic]] and French investments, Lamar established a legitimate trading venture. Despite his former vendetta with his cousin-in-law [[Howell Cobb]], he came to support him and his free-trade [[Cobbites|Cobbite]] faction against the protectionist [[Grabblers]], as tariffs would have hurt his business.<br />
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