Waterman's Song Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

Name: Waterman's Song Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
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ISBN: 9780807849729

ISBN-10: 0807849723

ISBN-13: 9780807849729

Edition: 2001

Authors: David S. Cecelski

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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…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Historian David S. Cecelski is author of The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina and co-editor (with Timothy B. Tyson) of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.



Preface: The Waterman's Song


Prologue



Working on the Water



As Far as a Colored Man Can There Be Free: A Slave Waterman's Life



Common as Gar Broth: Slave Fishermen from Tidewater Plantations to the Outer Banks



Like Sailors at Sea: Slaves and Free Blacks in the Shad, Rockfish, and Herring Fishery



A March Down into the Water: Canal Building and Maritime Slave Labor



The Straggle for Freedom



All of Them Abolitionists: Black Watermen and the Maritime Passage to Freedom



The Best and Most Trustworthy Pilots: Slave Watermen in Civil War Beaufort



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