Woman announces she is divorcing her pirate ghost husband.
Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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In 1906 Congress passed “An Act to Prohibit Shanghaiing in the United States.” One section made unlawful the inducing of a man “intoxicated or under the influence of any drug” to perform labor aboard a foreign or domestic ship.
What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Lapham’s
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