Table of Contents
- 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)