Author: James CheathamPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595446388
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Historical places and my favorite people.
Sailing the Carolina Sounds
Author: James CheathamPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595446388
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Historical places and my favorite people.
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Author: Cruising World
Author: The Waterman's Song
Author: David S. CecelskiPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807869724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, 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. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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