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The waterman's song : slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina /
Cecelski, "chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers."
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2001]
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| Colección: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Working on the water
- 1. As far as a colored man can there be free : a slave waterman's life
- 2. Common as gar broth : slave fishermen from Tidewater plantations to the Outer Banks
- 3. Like sailors at sea : slaves and free Blacks in the shad, rockfish, and herring fishery
- 4. A march down into the water : canal building and maritime slave labor
- pt. 2. The struggle for freedom
- 5. All of them abolitionists : Black watermen and the maritime passage to freedom
- 6. The best and most trustworthy pilots : slave watermen in Civil War Beaufort
- 7. A radical and Jacobinical spirit : Abraham Galloway and the struggle for freedom in the maritime South
- Afterword : The last daughter of Davis Ridge.