The waterman's song : slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina / by David S. Cecelski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cecelski, David S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--North Carolina.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--North Carolina--History.

Slavery.

African American ship pilots--North Carolina--History--19th century.

African American ship pilots.

African American fishers--North Carolina--History--19th century.

African American fishers.

Inland water transportation--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Inland water transportation.

North Carolina--History--1775-1865.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

Contents:

Contents; Preface: The Waterman's Song; Prologue; Part One. Working on the Water; ONE: As Far as a Colored Man Can There Be Free: A Slave Waterman's Life; TWO: Common as Gar Broth: Slave Fishermen from Tidewater Plantations to the Outer Banks; THREE: Like Sailors at Sea: Slaves and Free Blacks in the Shad, Rockfish, and Herring Fishery; FOUR: A March Down into the Water: Canal Building and Maritime Slave Labor; Part Two. The Struggle for Freedom; FIVE: All of Them Abolitionists: Black Watermen and the Maritime Passage to Freedom

SIX: The Best and Most Trustworthy Pilots: Slave Watermen in Civil War BeaufortSEVEN: A Radical and Jacobinical Spirit: Abraham Galloway and the Struggle for Freedom in the Maritime South; Afterword: The Last Daughter of Davis Ridge; Glossary of North Carolina Watercraft, 1790-1865; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

979-88-908724-4-9

979-88-9313-121-5

0-8078-6972-4

OCLC:

772844971