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...were eluded or defied by the ships of the newly independent American colonies. Southern planters needed slaves to maintain an expanding economy. To meet the demand, Northern shipowners sent ever bigger and faster ships to Africa loaded with New England rum, as well as guns, to exchange for slaves. "Worter yr. Rum as much as possible," one owner counseled his captain, "and sell as much by the short mesuer as you can." In the 1840s, so many Yankee ships from Salem traded on the island of Zanzibar (which specialized not only in slaves but made-to-order eunuchs) that...
Homer E. Newell, Jr. '36, of Holyoke; Hurbert H. Nexon '37, of Brookline; Julian Nieckoski '37, of Deerfield; John A. O'Keefe '37, of Lynn; Bernard A. Orkin '38, of Dorchester; Leo Orris '37, of Roxbury; Richard Paull '38, of Barre; Fred F. Plimpton '36, of Worter; Francis J. Potter '37, of Cambridge; Albert L. Rabinovitz '36, of Chelsea; Robert H. Rawson '36, of Abington; John J. Reidy, Jr. '38, of Roslindale; Randall W. Richards, Jr. '38, of Lexington; Melvin Richter '37, of Dorchester; Lorne Rickert '36, of Winchester; Edward H. Riddle '37, of Cambridge; Martin Ritvo '38, of Cambridge...
...several members of the Senior crew are unable to continue rowing, it has been decided to have a picked crew from the three upperclasses race Worter High School on Lake Quinsigamond next Saturday. R. G. Crandall '09 is ineligible for the University crew squad as he entered the Law School last fall, and R. Ellis '09 will leave with the second University crew for Philadelphia on Thursday...
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