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slavery and freedom in maritime North Carolina
1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations, map.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law