Two Captains from Carolina : Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War /

In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished 19th-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791-ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid lif...

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Autor principal: Simpson, Bland
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Maffitt, John Newland, > 1819-1886.
Grandy, Moses, > 1786-1843
Grandy, Moses, > 1786?-
Grandy, Moses, > 1786-1843.
Ship captains.
Seafaring life.
Irish Americans.
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
TRANSPORTATION > Ships & Shipbuilding > Pictorial.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Vie en mer > Caroline du Nord > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Americains d'origine irlandaise > Caroline du Nord > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Caroline du Nord > Biographies.
Capitaines de navire > Caroline du Nord > Biographies.
Seafaring life > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
Irish Americans > North Carolina > Biography.
African Americans > North Carolina > Biography.
Ship captains > North Carolina > Biography.
North Carolina.
Caroline du Nord > Biographies.
Caroline du Nord > Histoire > 1775-1865.
North Carolina > Biography.
North Carolina > History > 1775-1865.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Captains
  • Grandy, early 1800s-circa 1820
  • The wind that blows, 1820
  • Maffitt, 1819-1834
  • Grandy, early 1820s-1832
  • The wind that blows, 1830
  • Grandy and Maffitt, late 1834
  • Maffitt, 1834-1842
  • Grandy, mid-1830s-1842
  • The wind that blows, 1840
  • Maffitt, early 1840s-early 1850s
  • The wind that blows, 1850
  • Maffitt, 1851-1861
  • Grandy, August 1842-January 1844
  • Maffitt, May 1861-January 1869
  • Epilogue.

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