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Black jacks: African American seamen in the age of sail

W. Jeffrey Bolster 1997 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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  • 9780674076242 (hardcover)
  • 9780674028470 (ebook)
  • 9780674076273 (paper)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Introduction: To Tell the Tale (page 1)
  • 1. The Emergence of Black Sailors in Plantation America (page 7)
  • 2. African Roots of Black Seafaring (page 44)
  • 3. The Way of a Ship (page 68)
  • 4. The Boundaries of Race in Maritime Culture (page 102)
  • 5. Possibilities for Freedom (page 131)
  • 6. Precarious Pillar of the Black Community (page 158)
  • 7. Free Sailors and the Struggle with Slavery (page 190)
  • 8. Toward Jim Crow at Sea (page 215)
  • Tables (page 233)
  • Notes (page 241)
  • Acknowledgments (page 297)
  • Index (page 301)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ENHR 114.455 (Feb. 1999): 218 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199902%29114%3A455%3C218%3ABJAASI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
JAH 84.4 (Mar. 1998): 1500 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199803%2984%3A4%3C1500%3ABJAASI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
JSocH 32.4 (Summer 1999): 967-969 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4529%28199922%2932%3A4%3C967%3ABJASIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
JER 19.1 (Spring 1999): 139-142 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0275-1275%28199921%2919%3A1%3C139%3ABJAASI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
AHR 103.3 (Jun. 1998): 963-964 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199806%29103%3A3%3C963%3ABJAASI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
WMQ 55.1 (Jan 1998): 156-158 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199801%293%3A55%3A1%3C156%3ABJAASI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
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