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| Illustration from Eighteenth-Century Merchant Ship Interiors, a Thesis by Mary Ann Renner. See link below. |
You don't see much on old ship interiors, but here is a good one that you might want to browse. It might give some idea of where things were placed or stored, and therefore where they might end up.
Here is the link.
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In 1513, a free and literate African named Juan Garrido explored Florida with a Spanish conquistador, Juan Ponce de León. In the following decades, Africans, free and enslaved, were part of all the Spanish expeditions exploring the southern region of the United States. In 1565, Africans helped establish the first permanent European settlement in what is St. Augustine, Florida today...These Catholic Church records show that everyone was treated in theory as "brothers in Christ" and that the Church helped incorporate Africans into Spanish communities. It also helped free some slaves.
St. Augustine’s Catholic records show that after English Protestants established a settlement in what became South Carolina in 1670, their African slaves began to flee southward seeking admission into the "True Faith" – which to the Spaniards meant Catholicism.
Florida’s Spanish governors sheltered them and saw to their religious conversion, seeking royal approval of their actions. After some deliberation, in 1693, Spain’s monarch ruled that all slaves fleeing Protestant lands to seek conversion in Catholic colonies should be freed. Word of the fugitives’ reception in St. Augustine spread quickly through South Carolina, generating bitter complaints among planters and encouraging additional southward escapes by their slaves...
Here is the link for more about that.
What Catholic Church records tell us about America's earliest black history (yahoo.com)
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I mentioned that I recently ran a metal detector through an extremely junky area. Here is one item I picked out of the other junk on that outing.
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| Brass Hinge Find. |
When I found it, it was encrusted and stuck together in the position shown on the left above. It looked a little like a cross. After I cleaned it and opened it up, I saw it was a hinge. Don't know what kind though. Very nicely and precisely constructed. No manufacturer marks or anything like that at all.
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Just as the AR-15 rifle has become a sacred object for Christian nationalists in general, the rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or “rad trad”) Catholics. On this extremist fringe, rosary beads have been woven into a conspiratorial politics and absolutist gun culture. These armed radical traditionalists have taken up a spiritual notion that the rosary can be a weapon in the fight against evil and turned it into something dangerously literal...
From The Extremist Gun Culture Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary - The Atlantic
The author mistakes most everything about the nature of the war, but her fear of a "weaponized" rosary shows that she sees herself as being at war and tells which side she is on.
If you read the Atlantic article, to be fair, you might want to read at least the short version of the other side. Here is one choice.
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| Winning The Invisible War by E. M. Bounds. |
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |