Two captains from Carolina : Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the coming of the Civil War : a nonfiction novel / by Bland Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Bland.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ship captains--North Carolina--Biography.

Ship captains.

African Americans--North Carolina--Biography.

African Americans.

Irish Americans--North Carolina--Biography.

Irish Americans.

Seafaring life--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Seafaring life.

North Carolina--History--1775-1865.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--Biography.

Grandy, Moses, 1786-1843.

Grandy, Moses.

Maffitt, John Newland, 1819-1886.

Maffitt, John Newland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. With his lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation. Grandy, born a slave, captain

Contents:

Captains

Grandy, early 1800s-circa 1820

The wind that blows, 1820

Maffitt, 1819-1834

Grandy, early 1820s-1832

The wind that blows, 1830

Grandy and Maffitt, late 1834

Maffitt, 1834-1842

Grandy, mid-1830s-1842

The wind that blows, 1840

Maffitt, early 1840s-early 1850s

The wind that blows, 1850

Maffitt, 1851-1861

Grandy, August 1842-January 1844

Maffitt, May 1861-January 1869

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908857-7-7

979-88-9313-443-8

1-4696-0153-2

0-8078-3810-1

OCLC:

804661464