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

• Autore: Bolster W. Jeffrey
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p. ) : 37 halftones, 3 maps, 3 tables
• Disciplina: 387.5/08996073
• Soggetto topico: African American merchant mariners - History; Sailing ships - United States - History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Black jacks
• ISBN: 0-674-02847-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784625803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II