Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet by Everett Allen

Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet

Everett Allen

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Everett S. Allen, through diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts of the period, follows the Quakers from Plymouth Colony to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where these "children of the light" lived and founded an enormously lucrative whaling industr...

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