Moby-Dick is published
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- author
- a person who writes a text
- industry
- work that makes goods or provides services
- imagine
- form an idea or picture in your mind
Herman Melville published Moby-Dick while living in Massachusetts. The novel tells an imagined story about a whaling voyage. Real whaling ports such as New Bedford helped shape its world.
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Follow-up: Anthony Burns is returned to slavery
Anthony Burns had escaped slavery and reached Boston. He was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act. People protested, but officials sent him back to slavery. Supporters later helped purchase his freedom.
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