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peddler or hawker, itinerant vendor of small goods. In rural America peddlers carried their packs or drove a horse and cart from door to door. While the importance of peddlers to the small American community declined considerably with the growth of automobile transportation and mail-order houses, their role in certain sections of the Asian and African markets has remained important.
BibliographySee R. L. Wright, Hawkers and Walkers in Early America (1927, repr. 1965); J. R. Dolan, Yankee Peddlers of Early America (1964). |
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We want to be humane," says Delgadillo, "but we will not allow a return of the gangs and drug peddlers who prey on the homeless. But public outrage has grown with continuous allegations that include trial tampering to aid drug peddlers and sexual improprieties. These children, they said, were first enslaved by giving them heroin-laced candy or sodas, and then became the precocious agents of the drug peddlers. |
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