Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.