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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458012503321

Autore

Bolster W. Jeffrey

Titolo

Black jacks [[electronic resource] ] : African American seamen in the age of sail / / W. Jeffrey Bolster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-674-02847-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p. ) : 37 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables

Disciplina

387.5/08996073

Soggetti

African American merchant mariners - History

Sailing ships - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Tables Notes Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Aiming to reveal the role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America and how they actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture, this book traces the history of black seamen to the end of the American Civil War.