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Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail W ~ “In Black Jacks historian and master mariner W Jeffrey Bolster tells the longignored story of black seamen in this country between 1740 and the end of the Civil War revealing the critical role that they played in helping to forge a black identity

Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by ~ Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865 Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters

Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail ~ Few Americans black or white recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history W Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865

Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail ~ W Jeffrey Bolsters book Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail is an attempt to add a particular nuance to the recent challenges of the once standard narrative of slavery as a system of constant direct supervision and mindless toil for all slaves on plantations Bolsters investigation of slave laborers and emancipated blacks employed in the water transportation trade finds workers in and out of slavery who were independent worldly and highly skilled

Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by ~ Few Americans black or white recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history W Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865

Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail W ~ The real achievement of Black Jacks is to remind us that black seafaring in the age of sail was not limited to the middle passage and that black sailors were the eyes the ears and the mouthpieces of the African American community at a time when America was attempting to stifle the communitys collective cry of

Black Jacks — W Jeffrey Bolster Harvard University Press ~ Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865 Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters

By W Jeffrey Bolster Black Jacks African American ~ By W Jeffrey Bolster Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail Paperback – September 28 1999 by W Jeffrey Bolster Marianne Perlak Designed by Author

Black Jacks AfricanAmerican Seamen in the Age of Sail ~ Jeffrey Bolsters personal seafaring experience lends vibrance to his gorgeously detailed account Black Jacks AfricanAmerican Seamen in the Age of Sail This deserving analysis of AfricanAmerican sailors who totaled twenty thousand men and composed one fifth of the United States maritime labor force by the early nineteenth century illustrates important ways of conceptualizing both early AfricanAmerican and maritime history