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Black jacks: African American seamen in the age of sail
Bolster, W. Jeffrey.
Year: 1997.
Publisher:  Harvard University Press. 
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Frontmatter
Introduction: To Tell the Tale
1. The Emergence of Black Sailors in Plantation America
2. African Roots of Black Seafaring
3. The Way of a Ship
4. The Boundaries of Race in Maritime Culture
5. Possibilities for Freedom
6. Precarious Pillar of the Black Community
7. Free Sailors and the Struggle with Slavery
8. Toward Jim Crow at Sea
Tables
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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Title: Black jacks : African American seamen in the age of sail W. Jeffrey Bolster.
Author: Bolster, W. Jeffrey
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2008
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Source Version: Black jacks : African American seamen in the age of sail W. Jeffrey Bolster. 
Bolster, W. Jeffrey
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00352
Subject Headings: • African American merchant mariners -- History
• Sailing ships -- United States -- History
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