Notes
1 In his CitationYoung Men and the Sea and her CitationCaptain Ahab had a Wife, historians Daniel Vickers and Lisa Norling provide strong evidence for the changing nature of American maritime society.
2 For more on the history of evangelical ideology and its relationship to growing reform movement in antebellum America see Robert Abzug’s Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994).