Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race by Nancy Shoemaker

Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race

Nancy Shoemaker

320 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigo...

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