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FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea - by Dana Vacca

Captain Eben MacGregor, Master of the whaling ship, Lady Grey.
"...always present, like my own breath, was the sound of the blue-violet sea that whished along the sides of the great wooden ship like liquid silk as, heeled over with the wind on her quarter, the LADY GREY softly cut her path to the north."

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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea

FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
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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