The American Experience looks at the history of American whaling from its off-shore origins in the 17th century to the golden age of deep water whaling and the eventual decline in the decades after the Civil War.
American Experience
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World
season 22 episode 8
episode aired on may 2010
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Cast of episode
- Narrator
- Self - Historian
- Self - Historian
- Narrator
- Self - Writer
- Self - Writer
- Self - Melville Scholar
- Self - New Bedford Whaling Museum
- Owen Chase
- Thomas Nickerson
- Self
- Self - Marine Biologist
- Self - Historian
- Self
- Dock Worker
- Voice
- Self - Historian