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![Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBdzVCVFE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6afdef687d20db6fe58f87ce004381f32e5df079/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Black%20Jacks-%20African%20American%20Seamen%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Sail.jpg)
352 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674076273
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 September 1998
Description
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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352 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674076273
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 September 1998
Description
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...