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Kingston upon Hull is a port city on the east coast of England.
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An archipelago in the northeast Atlantic ocean, the Azores were a Portugese colony in the 18th century, and remain an autonomous region of that country today.
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The Knight/Squire relationships may symbolize relationships of oppression in the 19th century as Heimert suggests, but Ishmael is pretty sanguine about the racial hierarchy of 19th century american labor. The “native American” who “liberally provides the brains” is, of course, a white man of Anglo descent, not an indian. Wonder what where Ish would’ve come down on black quarterbacks?
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Until the late 18th century, most nails were made by hand, or wrought (usually by a Blacksmith). The first machine made nails were “cut” off a metal strip by a machine. Wrought nails are harder to remove because the shaft has four sharp edges and the shape is imperfect. Today we use nails made from steel round wire, which are called “wire nails.”
Wrought, cut, and wire nails
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A stage-coach driver sits on the “driver’s box,” so it better be comfy.
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A joiner is a carpenter who cuts and fits together wood without nails, screws, or other metal fasteners. A journeyman is a tradesman who has just finished his apprenticeship. To have the security of a year’s employment just after completing your apprenticeship would indeed make you calm and collected.
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In Moby Dick and American Political Symbolism, Alan Heimert observes that each “knight/squire” relationship symbolizes a particular kind of 19th century, American oppression. Starbuck represents New England, which depended on sailors from the south seas, like Queequeg, to maintain its maritime industries. With a Native American subservient “from the most westerly promontory of Martha’s Vineyard,” Stubbs represents the West. And Flask, with “coal-black negro” Daggoo, the South, which still depended on the labor of black slaves.
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