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Yankees in the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean Studies Series Richard B. Allen, series editor Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500 –1850 Erin E. Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson, eds., Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast Jane Hooper, Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800 Krish Seetah, ed., Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World Pedro Machado, Steve Mullins, and Joseph Christensen, eds., Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, eds., Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean Jane Hooper, Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 ADVISORY BOARD Edward A. Alpers University of California, Los Angeles (emeritus) Clare Anderson University of Leicester Sugata Bose Harvard University Ulbe Bosma International Institute of Social History, Leiden Janet Ewald Duke University Devleena Ghosh University of Technology Sydney Engseng Ho Duke University Isabel Hofmeyr University of the Witwatersrand Pier M. Larson Johns Hopkins University Om Prakash University of Delhi (emeritus) Himanshu Prabha Ray National Monuments Authority, India Kerry Ward Rice University Nigel Worden University of Cape Town Markus Vink SUNY at Fredonia Yankees in the Indian Ocean American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 Jane Hooper OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS ATHENS, OHIO Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 ohioswallow.com © 2022 by Ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from Ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department at (740) 593-1154 or (740) 593-4536 (fax). Printed in the United States of America Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ™ 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 5 4 3 2 1 The author has made a good-faith effort to reach all rights holders for figures and tables. If the current rights holder is unknown or has not responded to multiple inquiries, the original source is noted. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hooper, Jane, 1981–author. Title: Yankees in the Indian Ocean : American commerce and whaling, 1786–1860 / Jane Hooper. Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2022] | Series: Indian Ocean studies series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022018913 (print) | LCCN 2022018914 (ebook) | ISBN 9780821425084 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780821447901 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Whaling—United States—History—18th century. | Whaling—United States—History—19th century. | Whaling—Social aspects—Indian Ocean Region. | Americans—Indian Ocean Region—History—18th century. | Americans—Indian Ocean Region—History—19th century. | United States—Commerce—Indian Ocean Region. | Indian Ocean Region—Commerce—United States. Classification: LCC SH383.2 .H67 2022 (print) | LCC SH383.2 (ebook) | DDC 639.2/80973—dc23/eng/20220523 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022018913 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022018914 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: “15000 Miles from Our Native Home” Chapter 1: Early Excursions Chapter 2: Yankees in Mahajanga, Madagascar Chapter 3: Whalers in Saint Augustin Bay Chapter 4: Sailor Tourism Chapter 5: Provisioning Islands and Ecological Impacts Chapter 6: American Illegal Slaving Conclusion: Fourth of July and Global Rites of State Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments I am grateful to have received support from so many friends, colleagues, archivists, and institutions. My colleagues at George Mason University have been generous with their time and expertise. I would especially like to thank the following people: Joan Bristol, Carrie Grabo, Sheri Huerta, Alison Landsberg, Sam Lebovic, Sun-Young Park, Brian Platt, and Rosemarie Zagarri. Numerous historians outside of George Mason also offered encouragement. I am indebted to Clifton Crais for my training as a historian and for modeling how to write, research, and teach with empathy. Richard Allen has been a constant source of cheerful encouragement. I look forward to our future collaborations. Pier Larson provided me with vital assistance over the years. His loss is a grave one for Malagasy and Indian Ocean history. I was the fortunate recipient of several invitations to present my preliminary research findings. I wish to thank the organizers, as well as attendees, of these seminars for their insights: the Early Americas Workshop at George Mason University, the “Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas” seminar at Howard University, the Journée d’étude on the Francophone Indian Ocean at Florida State University, and the Department of History seminar at Johns Hopkins University. I presented papers at the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions, the American Historical Association, the African Studies Association, and the World History Association. Thank you to all who listened and provided feedback in these and other venues. I especially appreciated the support of Danna Agmon, Ned Alpers, Jack Bouchard, Daniel Domingues da Silva, Janet Ewald, Ben Hurwitz, Pedro Machado, Amanda Madden, Nate Marvin, Molly McCullers, Kevin McDonald, Vanessa Oliveira, Tasha Rijke-Epstein, Robert Rouphail, Devin Smart, and Laurie Wood. Earlier versions of several chapters were published in the Canadian Journal of African Studies, Global Food History, and the Journal of African Economic History. Thank you to the editors and readers for their assistance with those pieces. My research in New England archives was supported with generous grants from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Nantucket Historical Association, and the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Archivists at the following institutions helped me to uncover the logbooks and journals that make up the accounts in this book: the Baker Library in the Harvard Business School, the special collections of the Library of Congress, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Mystic Seaport Library and Museum, the Nantucket Historical Association archives, the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Library, the Peabody Essex Museum and Library, and the Rhode Island Historical Society. Thank you to the editors and staff of Ohio University Press for helping to move this project to publication. I am particularly grateful for Rick Huard’s guidance through the entire process. I also benefited from feedback from anonymous readers who offered me detailed critiques and helped me rethink key portions of the manuscript. Even with this support, numerous mistakes likely can be found throughout the book, but those errors are all my own. Much of the writing and editing of this book took place after March 2020. As the world shut down and schools closed, I relied heavily on friends, family, and neighbors to help me find the time to complete this project. Even though my neighbors know little about the history of the Indian Ocean, they provided invaluable assistance. They entertained my children during masked outdoor playdates and gave encouragement in the evenings when we sat outside after our children had gone to sleep. Without them, I would not have had the mental capacity to continue my work in the midst of virtual elementary-school classes and my own online teaching. Last but certainly not least, I thank my husband, Josh, for his constant support, and our children, Elizabeth and Noah, for occupying themselves when I had to finish just one more page.
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