...Prior to the Civil War, merchant vessels were a precarious and dangerous workplace for seamen in antebellum America. The dangers came not only from seafaring itself—harsh weather, hazardous waters, and hard labor—but also from their officers and from one another. Despite the existence of statutes...

... the masculine ethic of gentlemen of the period. However, there was a dramatic change in what constituted gentlemanly honor and behavior between the 1790s and 1860. This chapter examines how officers responded to competing definitions of honor in antebellum America and how their honor legitimated their authority...

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...This chapter examines the life of Lewis Henry Morgan in the context of secularism in antebellum America. It explains that Morgan's intersected with evangelical revivalism and séance spiritualism and that he distanced himself from the formalities of religion choosing to describes his own scientific...

... Butler Judith Davis Andrew Jackson Newton A E Newton Sarah Deleuze Giles Stolow Jeremy submission vagueness monsters and monstrousness Devo secularism antebellum America machines Captain Ahab John Murray Smith deterministic schemes public Protestantism force relations religion...

... seamen and the nation in the years prior to the Civil War. Antebellum America developed a system to define itself through the federal courts and consuls that tackled maritime cases. citizenship consuls’ role in defining Constitution of the United States citizenship and consuls ad hoc nature of duels...

... wealth Adam Smith Benjamin Franklin British Guiana antebellum America colonization slaves slave owners Planters, merchants, ordinary white people, and the occasional free colored person amassed considerable wealth in the plantation system as black chattel slavery was embedded into British...