“Our City is Full of Strangers” Cultural Anxiety of Sailors | SF

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California State University Maritime Academy Professor Dr. Amy Parsons will present a discussion of the cultural anxiety that surrounded sailors and ports in the mid-nineteenth century. While readers loved stories of adventure on the high seas, reformers worried that sailors would ruin the moral character of American coastal cities.

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