In the years following the War of 1812, American merchants and seafarers expanded the young nation s global reach, bringing trade goods to and from distant lands. The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves was passed in 1807 and enacted in 1808, but legal trade with Africans and European nations with African colonies continued and flourished. This journal penned by Edward Watson, a mariner from Newport, Rhode Island offers a glimpse into the often harsh and unusual life of the nineteenth-century merchant mariner.
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In the years following the War of 1812, American merchants and seafarers expanded the young nation s global reach, bringing trade goods to and from distant lands. The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves was passed in 1807 and enacted in 1808, but legal trade with Africans and European nations with African colonies continued and flourished. This journal penned by Edward Watson, a mariner from Newport, Rhode Island offers a glimpse into the often harsh and unusual life of the nineteenth-century merchant mariner.
Previously unpublished, this annotated and illustrated edition, along with photographs of the original journal, draws readers into daily life at sea in a bygone era.
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