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Herman Melville's Whaling Years
by Wilson Heflin
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Excerpt - from Front Matter: "
... and the traces of facts that Heflin was able to work with are definable. Herman Melville left for his first whaling voyage on the Fairhaven, Massachusetts, whaleship Acushnet on January 3, 1841. ... "
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Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870
by Margaret S. Creighton
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... In 1857, just after he had returned from a whaling voyage to the North Pacific ocean, eighteen-year-old Jamie McKenzie stood for his portrait. ... "
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Melville's Anatomies
by Samuel Otter
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... the black sap, and leaves the skin its natural, nearly white, colour" (1: 113 -r4). In Narrative o f a Whaling Voyage (184o), Bennett reports that Marquesan women and male chiefs maintained a fair complexion by smearing their ... "
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The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts
by Kathryn Grover
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... a slave owned by the heirs of Nantucket's William Swain, rather than to the heirs after Prince served on a whaling voyage on Rotch's whaling vessel Friendship. The court of common pleas on Nantucket is said to have manumitted Prince in consequence ... "
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