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The extraordinary lives of New England’s Black whaling captains
For Paul Cuffe, a native of Cuttyhunk Island off the coast of Massachusetts, to join the crew of a whale ship as a teenager in 1773 wasn’t that unusual. Nor was it out of the ordinary for the ...
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250-Year-Old Shipwreck Found Beneath World Trade Center in New York City Stuns Archeologists
According to the experts, an old-growth forest in Philadelphia provided the white oak used in the ship's frames. They ...