Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

W. Jeffrey Bolster

352 pages paperback 1997

2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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