Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
by
David S. Cecelski
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
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 vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer...