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He struck a school of sperm whales, killed one, and brought blubber home.Two years after the American colonists, then on the threshold of the revolt against Great Britain, thought to put America on a like high plane, and formally resolved that they would not purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next after which time, we will wholly discontinue john whitehead goldman the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.The slaver Perfect, Captain Potter, lay at anchor at Mana with one hundred slaves aboard.Diving, he rose again to the surface about a ship's length away, and then surged forward on the surface, striking the vessel just john whitehead goldman forward of the fore chains.The mate, second mate, the boatswain, and about half the crew were sent into the interior to buy some more slaves.The pursuit of this royal fish as the ancient john whitehead goldman chroniclers call him in contented ignorance of the fact that he is not a fish at all had not, indeed, originated in New England, but had been practised by all maritime peoples of whom history has knowledge, while the researches of archeologists have shown that prehistoric peoples were accustomed to chase the gigantic cetacean for his blubber, his oil, and his bone.The fear of it, however, was ever present to the captains engaged in the trade, and to guard against it the slaves always the men and sometimes the women as well were shackled together in pairs.By 1789 the whalers found their way to the Pacific destined in later years to be their chief fishing john whitehead goldman ground.Twenty pounds in the hundred was the usual figure in the early days.But in 1820 a law was passed john whitehead goldman declaring slave trading piracy, and punishable with death.Groping in the dark, the helpless sailors made shift to handle the ropes, while the one man still having eyesight clung to the wheel.