Wealthy Quaker merchants in whaling towns, like Martha’s Vineyard, were some of the earliest and most fervent supporters of abolition. Whaling profits financed the construction of meeting houses ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Starting around 1650, whaling expanded along the Northeast coast of the British ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick ...