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			1812 U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") fights British.

1813 William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward

			1815 The Affecting Narrative of Louisa Baker

1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem raises outcry over supposed abandonment of "Old Ironsides."

			1834 Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"

1835 Seaman's Aid Society establishes a "Mariner's Home" in Boston

			1836 Providence ships lists show 30% African American seamen.

1839 Amistad trial in New Haven

			1841 Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems

1850 10,000 men employed in whaling on shore or at sea

			1851 Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"

1854 Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"

			1857 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride,"

1858 Black seamen parade in Boston and Providence to celebrate West Indian independence.

			1859 Gloucester fleets net almost 30 million pounds of fish.
1859 Rockport women attack rumsellers.

			1871 New England whaling ships crushed in ice of coast of Alaska

1878 Old Ironsides takes last Atlantic voyage.

			1880 New England fisheries decline

1881 Nantucket's Coffin House restored
			1881 Winslow Homer seeks the "old ways" in an English fishing village.

1885 After moving to Prout's Neck, Maine, Winslow Homer turned to the drama of seafaring.

			1903 New Bedford Whaling Museum founded

1930 Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation
			1930 Nantucket Whaling Museum opened

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