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Cecelski David S |
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The waterman's song [[electronic resource] ] : slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina / / by David S. Cecelski |
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Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (325 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Enslaved persons - North Carolina |
Slavery - North Carolina - History |
African American ship pilots - North Carolina - History - 19th century |
African American fishers - North Carolina - History - 19th century |
Inland water transportation - North Carolina - History - 19th century |
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North Carolina History 1775-1865 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Contents; Preface: The Waterman's Song; Prologue; Part One. Working on the Water; ONE: As Far as a Colored Man Can There Be Free: A Slave Waterman's Life; TWO: Common as Gar Broth: Slave Fishermen from Tidewater Plantations to the Outer Banks; THREE: Like Sailors at Sea: Slaves and Free Blacks in the Shad, Rockfish, and Herring Fishery; FOUR: A March Down into the Water: Canal Building and Maritime Slave Labor; Part Two. The Struggle for Freedom; FIVE: All of Them Abolitionists: Black Watermen and the Maritime Passage to Freedom |
SIX: The Best and Most Trustworthy Pilots: Slave Watermen in Civil War BeaufortSEVEN: A Radical and Jacobinical Spirit: Abraham Galloway and the Struggle for Freedom in the Maritime South; Afterword: The Last Daughter of Davis Ridge; Glossary of North Carolina Watercraft, 1790-1865; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina |
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