Anacharsis Cloots Deputation (from "Thar She Blows")

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Joanne continues her conversation with scholar Hester Blum about the brutality and danger of whaling, while also showing how Mocha Dick and Melville’s Moby Dick romanticized whalers as representative of universal rights and American industrial prowess.

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