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			1770 Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield"

1773 Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom
			1773 Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"

1776 Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans

			1806 Black Baptists build a meeting house on Beacon Hill in Boston

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

			1829 David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

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

			1831 Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.

1832 Garrison begins "The Liberator"

			1833 John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause.
1833 Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans"

			1834 Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry"
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.

			1837 Vermont abolitionists begin sheltering escaped slaves
1837 Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"
			1837 Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England

1839 Amistad trial in New Haven

			1841 Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems
1841 Amistad case argued before the Supreme Court

			1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery
1842 With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery

			1845 Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.

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

1851 Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
			1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

1854 Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"
			1854 Anthony Burns arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act

1857 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride,"
			1857 Dred Scott Decision

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

			1859 Gloucester fleets net almost 30 million pounds of fish.
1859 Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing
			1859 Rockport women attack rumsellers.

1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states

			1865 13th Amendment outlaws slavery

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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