CONTENTS:
Contents
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
Tables
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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