- 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
Black Jacks
African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$21.00 • £18.95 • €19.95
ISBN 9780674076273
Publication Date: 09/15/1998
Awards & Accolades
- Co-Winner, 1997 Wesley–Logan Prize, American Historical Association and Association for the Study of African American Life and History
- 1997 Association of American Publishers PSP Award for Excellence, History Category
- 1997 John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic History
- A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, 1997
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