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FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
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Celia had never seen a place like New Bedford,.... The busy sea-faring village was a melting pot of cultures and its townspeople, as a whole, were friendly and congenial. One could not find a place more accepting of differences in skin color or customs than New Bedford,...

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Book Excerpts - The Captain's House

"Facing me was a fine, gracious mansard with an ornately-corbeled roof and a projecting bay, like the arc of a rainbow that made the front of the residence resemble the prow of a ship. At the highest point was a crested turret with windows like large spectacles looking to the sea. Altogether, it bespoke opulence, and that the captain was, undoubtedly, a man of means,..."

County Street, New Bedford, just a short walk from the wharf, was where many sea captains and ship owners built large, magnificent homes for themselves and their families. From rooftop cupola's or widow's walks they had almost a bird's eye view of the harbor and could keep an close watch on their ships being loaded, unloaded or re-fitted.

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Book Excerpts - New Bedford Harbor

New Bedford harbor was teeming with activity. Sailing ships coming and going, - loading and unloading cargo in the wharf district...... New Bedford was also the whaling capitol of the world!,.... it was the city that lit the world with its constant supply of whale oil to light the lanterns of homes everywhere!


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FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
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BOOK HIGHLIGHTS - Lady Grey (Ship)

The beautiful sailing barque, Lady Grey, underway with nearly full sail, her hull cuts gracefully through the water toward New Bedford.

Like many whaling and merchant ships of her day, she had "painted on" gun ports (only two were real), so that, from a distance, she had the look of a "ship of the line" and would be thought to be carrying a row of cannon along her larboard and starboard sides. However, this did not insure safety as a privateer captain worth his salt had every ship he had ever seen etched into his memory,... by the line of her hull, the configuration of her masts and sails, - and most often knew which battlements were feigned and which were real!


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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea