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Heroes in the Ships: African Americans in the Whaling Industry
This site tells the story of the black and Creole mariners who by 1900 constituted the majority of the labor force in the New England whaling industry. Illustrated with a number of historic photographs. From the Kendall Institute of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts.
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/library/heros/index_h.html

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