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Join Amazon Prime today. Already a member? Sign in. 41 used & new from $6.00 - Have one to sell? See larger image Share your own customer images I own the rights to this title and would like to make it available again through Amazon. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Hardcover) by W. Jeffrey Bolster (Author) ( 6 customer reviews) 6 Reviews 5 star: (4) 4 star: (2) 3 star: (0) 2 star: (0) 1 star: (0) See all 6 customer reviews. - Availability: Available from these sellers. 41 used & new available from $6.00 Also Available in: List Price: Our Price: Other Offers: Paperback $13.37 $13.37 17 used & new from $8.40 Keep connected to what's happening in the world of books by signing up for Amazon.com Books Delivers, our monthly subscription e-mail newsletters. 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Gilje (1) $24.95 › Explore similar items: Books (50) - Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Among the more intriguing facts that this fascinating book contains is this statistic: by 1803, nearly 20 percent of seamen's jobs were filled by black men, most of them freemen. Historian Jeffrey Bolster, himself a sailor for a decade, covers the story of black sailors from Africa through mid-1800s America. Working as seamen helped blacks support families and helped facilitate communication among widely dispersed people. There were dangers--free blacks could be kidnapped and sold into slavery, and all black sailors were subject to vicious racism. Yet for all the drawbacks, sailing was a profession black men saw as "an occupation of opportunity." From Library Journal Licensed master mariner Bolster (history, Univ. of New Hampshire) writes a descriptively rich, engaging narrative of African American seafarers from the 1740s to the 1860s. He recounts how tens of thousands of African American sailors formed an important sector of the maritime labor force, shaped mariner culture and the identity of free black communities, and linked the Atlantic world of the black diaspora. Both free blacks and slaves found opportunity, dignity, and freedom despite harsh working conditions. They were skippers and captains as well as ordinary and able seamen, pilots, and cooks on merchant ships, warships, whalers, and other coastal and deep-sea vessels. Bolster devotes attention to the construction of race in the interactions among black and white sailors on ship, in port, and in the War of 1812 camp of Dartmoor (England) Prison. This excellent study is highly recommended for public and academic libraries?Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg Univ. Lib., Pa. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews - Product Details � Hardcover: 336 pages � Publisher: Harvard University Press (May 3, 1997) � Language: English � ISBN-10: 0674076249 � ISBN-13: 978-0674076242 � Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.2 inches � Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds � Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews. ( Write a review.) � Amazon.com Sales Rank: #904,663 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) (Publishers and authors: Improve Your Sales) � In-Print Editions: Paperback | All Editions Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images? (We'll ask you to sign in so we can get back to you) - Citations ( learn more) 55 books cite this book: � Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 by Emma Christopher on 5 pages � Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail by Daniel Vickers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3) � Technology and the African-American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study (His001000) by Bruce Sinclair on page 16, page 68, and page 214 � Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies) by Paul A. Gilje in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3) � Songs by Ted in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3) See all 55 books citing this book - Customers viewing this page may be interested in these Sponsored Links ( What's ?) Smart Strategies & Wars http://www.venturist.com Learn To Create Both! 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Learn more - Rate this item to improve your recommendations Sign in to rate this item I own it - Customer Reviews 6 Reviews 5 star: (4) 4 star: (2) 3 star: (0) 2 star: (0) 1 star: (0) Average Customer Review ( 6 customer reviews) Share your thoughts with other customers: Most Helpful Customer Reviews Understanding Afro-American contributions to exploration, April 11, 2002 By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Paperback) Bolster, a mariner and historian, provides a coverage of the history of black seafaring in the age of sail and reveals the black sailors played in America. Chapters hold many nearly-forgotten facts gleaned from source materials, providing important keys to understanding Afro-American contributions to exploration. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Captivating story with a style to thoroughly engage., April 22, 2004 By Wade "kmcwade" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews This review is from: Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Paperback) Anyone interested in the history of sailing, prisons, religious mysticism, African-Americans, the early United States, and occupational hazards would be well-advised to read this clear, concise, absorbing book. Bolster obviously did his research, and his narrative pulls the reader into the story of the under-studied community of black sailors "in the age of sail". Highly recommend for scholarly or other mind-broadening pursuits. Comment | this review helpful to you? ( Report this) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: A MUST READ for sailors, historians, and African Americans!, August 26, 2003 Reviewer: A reader This review is from: Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Paperback) The is an excellent well-written book about role African Americans sailors played in our country's history. My major criticism, however, is that the author included only 6 pages on pirates. More should have been written, because few people are aware that many fugitive slaves joined pirate ships. And before our country gained their independence pirate ships were democratic. Pirates elected their captains and voted on what ship they would take and where they would sail. And most pirate ships treated their fugitive slave hands as equals. In other words they ate the same food, performed the same tasks, and received the same amount of plunder as the white hands. Blackbeard had several fugitive slaves sailing on his ships. Read about one fugitive slave joining Blackbeard's crew in The Diary of a Slave Girl, Ruby Jo. Other than not giving more information about BLACK PIRATES, I think this book is very informative and should be on every library shelf. I plan to reread it! Comment | Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: See all 6 customer reviews. Most Recent Customer Reviews Great overall, Still Eurocentric in Spots This is a very important book and should launch more studies of this very important subject. This book contains much to recommend it; it is very informative and is very well. Read more Published on June 5, 1999 History as it should be -- entertaining and informative. Black Jacks is a fascinating read about a little-known aspect of American history. To his credit -- and to the reader's benefit -- Bolster has written about history in a way that. Read more Published on March 15, fascinating maritime and cultural history W. 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