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From a Prison in Brazil—1774

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Stanley F. Chyet
Stanley F. Chyet*
Affiliation:
Magnin School of Graduate Studies, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California
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Extract

Edmund Burke was much troubled in 1775 by the deteriorating relations between Great Britain and her North American dependencies. Even so grave a crisis, however, did not prevent him from noting and extolling “the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.” New England whalers were sailing to places as remote as the South Atlantic Falkland Islands “in the progress of their victorious industry.”

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The Americas , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , April 1979 , pp. 573 - 580
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1979

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References

1 Quoted in Hedges, James B., The Browns of Providence Plantations (Cambridge, Mass., 1952), p. 86.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 See Alden, Dauril, “Yankee Sperm Whalers in Brazilian Waters,” in The Americas, 20, No. 3 January, 1964), 276.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Alden, , Royal Government in Colonial Brazil (Berkeley, 1968), pp. 27,Google Scholar 416, 483.

4 See, Ellis, Myriam, “Aspectos da Pesca da Baleia no Brasil Colonial,” Revista de Historia (São Paulo), 16 (1958), 165,Google Scholar 390.

5 Commerce of Rhode Island: 1726–1800 (Boston, 1914–1915), II, 31.

6 See Chyet, S.F., Lopez of Newport (Detroit, 1970), pp. 142–53.Google Scholar