Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

by W. Jeffrey Bolster

Book Overview

Aiming to reveal the role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America and how they actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture, this book traces the history of black seamen to the end of the American Civil War.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674076249
• ISBN13: 9780674076242
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"