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New Bedford and the whale
1840
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Rolf Müller · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
For a few decades the richest city per capita in the world, lighting the lamps of two continents from sperm oil. Its crews were among the most integrated workplaces in America, Frederick Douglass worked the docks here after escaping, and Melville shipped out from just up the coast.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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