Salem, MA
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Elias Hasket Derby
The Merchant Who Waged War at Sea
Elias Hasket Derby never went to sea himself. He was a counting-house man, a merchant who understood ledgers and markets and risk. But from his wharf on Salem harbor, he waged a private war against th...
Modern Voices
What the Ledgers Tell Us
People come to Salem expecting witches. They leave, sometimes, understanding privateers. The maritime collections here at the Peabody Essex Museum contain thousands of documents from Salem's Revoluti...
