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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Waterman's Journal
Author: The Waterman's Song
Author: David S. CecelskiPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807869724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Canadian Stationer and Office Appliance Journal ...
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Category : Office equipment and supplies
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Jan. 1930-Feb. 1932, most issues include the Trade edition of the Canadian bookman.
Waterman
Author: David DavisPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803254776
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America’s first superstar Olympic swimmer. The original “human fish” set dozens of world records and topped the world rankings for more than a decade; his rivalry with Johnny Weissmuller transformed competitive swimming from an insignificant sideshow into a headliner event. Kahanamoku used his Olympic renown to introduce the sport of “surf-riding,” an activity unknown beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. Standing proudly on his traditional wooden longboard, he spread surfing from Australia to the Hollywood crowd in California to New Jersey. No American athlete has influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson. Kahanamoku’s connection to his homeland was equally important. He was born when Hawaii was an independent kingdom; he served as the sheriff of Honolulu during Pearl Harbor and World War II and as a globetrotting “Ambassador of Aloha” afterward; he died not long after Hawaii attained statehood. As one sportswriter put it, Duke was “Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey combined down here.” In Waterman, award-winning journalist David Davis examines the remarkable life of Duke Kahanamoku, in and out of the water. Purchase the audio edition.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
Typewriter Trade Journal and the Office System
Author: Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal
Author: Waterman's Child
Author: Barbara MitchellPublisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Young Annie begins with her great grandmother and tells about her family's life as fishermen on Chesapeake Bay.
Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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