The following was TRUE about the owners, captains, and crews of the whaling ships EXCEPT
A) owners and captains of the majority of American whaling ships were mostly men of New English stock, many of them Quakers.
B) the crews came from almost every corner of the globeâ€"Pacific Islanders, West Indians, South Americans, or Portuguese.
C) blacks were uniformly prohibited from serving as crew members or captains of whaling ships.
D) very few women served on whaling ships, although there were a few stories of women who hid their gender and embarked with crew.
Answer: C
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