Black jacks : African American seamen in the age of sail /

Main Author: Bolster, W. Jeffrey, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=282829
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300 |a 1 online resource (viii, 310 pages, [24] pages of plates) :  |b illustrations, maps 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-296) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: To Tell the Tale -- 1. The Emergence of Black Sailors in Plantation America -- 2. African Roots of Black Seafaring -- 3. The Way of a Ship -- 4. The Boundaries of Race in Maritime Culture -- 5. Possibilities for Freedom -- 6. Precarious Pillar of the Black Community -- 7. Free Sailors and the Struggle with Slavery -- 8. Toward Jim Crow at Sea. 
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650 0 |a Sailing ships  |x History.  |z United States 
650 7 |a TRANSPORTATION  |x Ships & Shipbuilding  |x Pictorial. 
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