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English: "Landing a fugitive slave at Drake's Wharf, South Boston, from the Yacht 'Moby Dick,' Capt. Austin Bearse, on the night of July 18, 1853." From Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston by Austin Bearse, 1881.
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Author Austin Bearse

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