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Children of the Light - The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet (Paperback)
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Children of the Light - The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet (Paperback)
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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 industry and elevated
it to an almost holy activity ordained by God for the enrichment of
the "chosen." Allen recounts the full story of a famous 1871 Arctic
disaster, in which thirty-two vessels in the New Bedford whaling
fleet, carrying 1200 officers and crew, found themselves trapped in
gale-driven pack ice. The shipwrecked victims were miraculously
rescued without a single loss of human life. The damage to the
fleet, however, was something from which New Bedford never fully
recovered.
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