print email comment close Heroes in the Ships: African Americans in the Whaling Industry URL: http://www.whalingmuseum.org/library/heros/index_h.html Description: 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. Publisher: Old Dartmouth Historical Society/New Bedford Whaling Museum Library of Congress Subject Headings: African American whalers African Americans -- History Black History Month Whaling -- History LII Database Information: Record 841 created by Martha Gifford on 01/31/2002 Last modification on 06/28/2009 Published: 06/28/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/841