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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Patroons and Periaguas
    sub title: enslaved watermen and watercraft of the lowcountry
  name:
    name part: Harris, Lynn B.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: scu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled along the rivers and coastline near the bourgeoning colonial port city of Charleston, South Carolina. Colonial South Carolina, from a European perspective, was a water-filled world where boatmen of diverse ethnicities adopted and adapted maritime skills learned from local experiences or imported from Africa and the Old World to create a New World society and culture. Lynn B. Harris describes how they crewed together in galleys as an ad hoc colonial navy guarding settlements on the Edisto, Kiawah, and Savannah Rivers, rowed and raced plantation log boats called periaguas, fished for profits, and worked side by side as laborers in commercial shipyards building sailing ships for the Atlantic coastal trade, the Caribbean islands, and Europe. Watercraft were of paramount importance for commercial transportation and travel, and the skilled people who built and operated them were a distinctive class in South Carolina. Enslaved patroons (boat captains) and their crews provided an invaluable service to planters, who had to bring their staple products--rice, indigo, deerskins, and cotton--to market, but they were also purveyors of information for networks of rebellious communications and illicit trade. Harris employs historical records, visual images, and a wealth of archaeological evidence embedded in marshes, underwater on riverbeds, or exhibited in local museums to illuminate clues and stories surrounding these interactions and activities. A pioneering underwater archaeologist, she brings sources and personal experience to bear as she weaves vignettes of the ongoing process of different peoples adapting to each other and their new world that is central to our understanding of the South Carolina maritime landscape. "--
  note: Lynn B. Harris.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-sc
  subject:
    geographic: Charleston County (S.C.)
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Boatbuilders
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston County
  subject:
    topic: Navigation
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Cultural pluralism
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston County
  subject:
    geographic: Charleston County (S.C.)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Charleston County (S.C.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Plantation life
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston County
  subject:
    topic: Boaters (Persons)
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston County
  subject:
    topic: Slaves
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston County
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
  classification: F277.C4 H36 2014
  classification: 975.7/9102
  classification: HIS036120 SOC001000 SOC021000
  identifier: 9781611173857 (hardback)
  identifier: 161117385X (hardback)
  identifier: 9781611173864 (ebook)
  identifier: 1611173868 (ebook)
  identifier: 2014004298
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140606
    record change date: 20151206123949.0
    record identifier: in00003515011
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng