| 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. |
| Abstract |
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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | 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 |
| Action note |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 13, 2016). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Cecelski, David S. Waterman's song. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2001027125 |
| ISBN | 9781469602356 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1469602350 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780807869727 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0807869724 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctt61vhf JSTOR |
