Not long-winded at all, Barry. This is great stuff. I don't know anything about it, so I have nothing to contribute but my enthusiasm, as is so often the case. But y'all definitely have that.

This would be a great movie, wouldn't it? A story about black sailors just as the world started turning in such a way that it limited their options. (From the "It Sucks to be Marginalized" file ... whence I seem to get unending ideas for stories.)

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