The Waterman's Song

Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

• Author(s): David S. Cecelski,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 0807849723
  ISBN_13: 9780807849729
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / 19th Century , History / United States / State & Local / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the