The waterman's song : slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only) HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World
Main Author: Cecelski, David S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Subjects:
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.
North Carolina > History > 1775-1865.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Working on the water. As far as a colored man can there be free: a slave waterman's life
  • Common as gar broth: slave fishermen from Tidewater plantations to the Outer Banks
  • Like sailors at sea: slaves and free Blacks in the shad, rockfish, and herring fishery
  • A march down into the water: canal building and maritime slave labor
  • part two. The struggle for freedom. All of them abolitionists: Black watermen and the maritime passage to freedom
  • The best and most trustworthy pilots: slave watermen in Civil War Beaufort
  • A radical and Jacobinical spirit: Abraham Galloway and the struggle for freedom in the maritime South
  • Afterword. The last daughter of Davis Ridge.

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