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The waterman's song [electronic resource] : slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina / by David S. Cecelski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469602356
  • 1469602350
  • 9780807869727
  • 0807869724
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Waterman's song.DDC classification:
  • 975.6/00496 21
LOC classification:
  • E444.N8 C43 2001
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Working on the water -- 1. As far as a colored man can there be free : a slave waterman's life -- 2. Common as gar broth : slave fishermen from Tidewater plantations to the Outer Banks -- 3. Like sailors at sea : slaves and free Blacks in the shad, rockfish, and herring fishery -- 4. A march down into the water : canal building and maritime slave labor -- pt. 2. The struggle for freedom -- 5. All of them abolitionists : Black watermen and the maritime passage to freedom -- 6. The best and most trustworthy pilots : slave watermen in Civil War Beaufort -- 7. A radical and Jacobinical spirit : Abraham Galloway and the struggle for freedom in the maritime South -- Afterword : The last daughter of Davis Ridge.
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Summary: Cecelski, "chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, 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."
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Includes index.

pt. 1. Working on the water -- 1. As far as a colored man can there be free : a slave waterman's life -- 2. Common as gar broth : slave fishermen from Tidewater plantations to the Outer Banks -- 3. Like sailors at sea : slaves and free Blacks in the shad, rockfish, and herring fishery -- 4. A march down into the water : canal building and maritime slave labor -- pt. 2. The struggle for freedom -- 5. All of them abolitionists : Black watermen and the maritime passage to freedom -- 6. The best and most trustworthy pilots : slave watermen in Civil War Beaufort -- 7. A radical and Jacobinical spirit : Abraham Galloway and the struggle for freedom in the maritime South -- Afterword : The last daughter of Davis Ridge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cecelski, "chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, 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."

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