Excerpt from The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors Two hundred years of wickedness unspeakable and human torture beyond all computation, justiy fied by Christian men and sanctioned by govern ments, at length reading the nation asunder in civil war and bequeathing a problem still unsolved all thisfollowedinthe wakeofthosefirstvoyages in search of labor which could be bought and sold as merchandise. It belonged to the dark ages with piracy and witchcraft, better forgotten than lre called, save ...
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Excerpt from The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors Two hundred years of wickedness unspeakable and human torture beyond all computation, justiy fied by Christian men and sanctioned by govern ments, at length reading the nation asunder in civil war and bequeathing a problem still unsolved all thisfollowedinthe wakeofthosefirstvoyages in search of labor which could be bought and sold as merchandise. It belonged to the dark ages with piracy and witchcraft, better forgotten than lre called, save for its potent influence in schooling brave seamen and building faster ships for peace and war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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