Whaling Captains of Color
America's First Meritocracy
by Skip Finley
304 pages· 2020· ISBN 9781682475096
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Working with archival records at whaling museums in libraries from private archives and interviews with people whose ancestors were whaling masters Finley culls stories from the lives of 54 black whaling captains to create a portrait of what life was like for these leaders of color on the high seas.
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