The waterman's song [[electronic resource] ] : slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina / / by David S. Cecelski

• Autore: Cecelski David S
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.36209756; 975.6/00496
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: North Carolina History 1775-1865
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
• Titolo autorizzato: The waterman's song
• ISBN: 0-8078-6972-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791971903321
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