"The history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn't been told is the story of whaling's leaders of color in an era when the only other option was slavery. Whaling was one of the first American industries to exhibit diversity. A man became a captain not because he was white or well-connected, but because he knew how to kill a whale. Along the way, he could...

Genealogical materials compiled by Joy for his children, tracing his descent from the first settlers on Nantucket; together with lists of whaling masters and ship captains of Nantucket and names of their ships prior to the year 1800.