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The allusion to one of the ships barbers in a previous chapter, together with the recollection of how conspicuous a part they enacted in a tragical drama soon to be related, leads me now to introduce them to the reader. Melvilles autobiographical account of life on a manofwar in the united states navy in the 1840s was an immediate success, and opened peoples eyes to the horrors of flogging, helping to get the. Informed by his own seafaring experiences, and those of the sailors he knew, white jacket traces the voyages of a naval man of war. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading white jacket or, the world on a manofwar.
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