Download or read book Black Jacks written by W. Jeffrey. Bolster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together--even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart--but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring, Black Jacks is African Americans' freedom story presented from a fresh perspective.

Download or read book Impressment of American Seamen written by James Fulton Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Citizen Sailors written by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and revolution created the first national, racially inclusive model of United States citizenship. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal immerses us in sailors’ pursuit of safe passage through the ocean world during the turbulent age of revolution. Challenged by British press-gangs and French privateersmen, who considered them Britons and rejected their citizenship claims, American seamen demanded that the U.S. government take action to protect them. In response, federal leaders created a system of national identification documents for sailors and issued them to tens of thousands of mariners of all races—nearly a century before such credentials came into wider use. Citizenship for American sailors was strikingly ahead of its time: it marked the federal government’s most extensive foray into defining the boundaries of national belonging until the Civil War era, and the government’s most explicit recognition of black Americans’ equal membership as well. This remarkable system succeeded in safeguarding seafarers, but it fell victim to rising racism and nativism after 1815. Not until the twentieth century would the United States again embrace such an inclusive vision of American nationhood.

Download or read book American Seamen written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remarks on the Scarcity of American Seamen and the remedy the naval apprenticeship system a home squadron c By a Gentleman connected with the New York Press written by AMERICAN SEAMEN. and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Seamen written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Operation of the Act for the Relief and Protection of American Seamen and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Seamen written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Relief and Protection of American Seamen Impressed into Service of Foreign Powers and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continuous Discharge Book for American Seamen written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Brunsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships’ logs, merchants’ papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Download or read book American Seamen written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Merchant Seaman s Manual written by William B. Hayler and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete handbook for merchant seamen, covering every phase of good seamanship and all navigation necessary to prepare for the third mate's license. In addition, of course, it is a first-rate reference work. "For Seamen By Seamen, " this classic manual was first published in 1938 and has gone through a number of revisions. New for the 2001 reprint is the addition of an extensive glossary of nautical terms.

Download or read book Remarks on the Scarcity of American Seamen written by Gentleman connected with the New York press and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Amend Certain Laws Relating to American Seamen written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on S. 306 and S. 314 and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book To Promote the Welfare of American Seamen written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (66) H.R. 8069.

Download or read book To Promote Welfare of American Seamen written by United States. Congress. House Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Amend Certain Laws Relating to American Seamen written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation relating to the shipment, wages, and discharge of seamen, and the duties of shipping commissioners.