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Hardcover Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War Book

ISBN: 0807835854

ISBN13: 9780807835852

Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War

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In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. With his lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson...

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