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1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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HeinOnline UNC Press law publications |
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HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law |
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HeinOnline civil rights and social justice |
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UNC Press law publications
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Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
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Civil rights and social justice
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| 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 |
| 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." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 13, 2016) |
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Enslaved persons -- North Carolina
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Slavery -- North Carolina -- History
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African American ship pilots -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
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African American fishers -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
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Inland water transportation -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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African American fishers
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African American ship pilots
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Inland water transportation
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons
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Slavernij.
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Zeelieden.
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Vissers.
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| SUBJECT |
North Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092489
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| Subject |
North Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001027125 |
| ISBN |
9781469602356 |
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1469602350 |
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9780807869727 |
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0807869724 |
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