The waterman's song : slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. 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
- part two. The struggle 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.