Abstract

This essay tells the compelling story of Cotton Mather's struggle to ride the stormy waves of colonial Boston's rise as an Atlantic port by focusing his ministerial and intellectual energies on a growing and volatile seafaring population. Seafarers' reactions to his efforts produced a complex, at times paradoxical, relationship.

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