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Authors: Michael Sokolow
ISBN-13: 9781558494091, ISBN-10: 155849409X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Sokolow (history, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY) offers a social, psychological, and cultural history of a working class, Victorian black man from Massachusetts whose personal diary left a fascinating record both of his inner life, his family life, and his long career as a mariner. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Acknowledgments: "Thanks to kind friends" | ||
Introduction: "Stranger do not read this Book" | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | "My Fathers Birth day in 1800": Framingham, 1721-1830 | 6 |
Ch. 2 | "You ocupy a place in my heart which none never did": Framingham and Salem, 1830-1853 | 21 |
Ch. 3 | "Jenny kissed me": Salem and At Sea, 1853-1861 | 41 |
Ch. 4 | "This sea life is hard": At Sea, 1862 | 61 |
Ch. 5 | "Jenny I want to see you bad": At Sea, 1862-1864 | 78 |
Ch. 6 | "It seams odd to be confined on ship board": At Sea, 1862-1864 | 96 |
Ch. 7 | "I feel more than half sick": At Sea, 1864 | 117 |
Ch. 8 | "How I wish that I could live on shore": Salem and At Sea, 1865-1878 | 134 |
Ch. 9 | "I am realy upon the Ocean once more": At Sea, 1875-1880 | 155 |
Ch. 10 | "This going to sea, it will kill me": At Sea, 1880-1881 | 169 |
Epilogue: "Charles A. Benson of this city steward of the Bark Glide" | 185 | |
App | "Talking about Salem Beverly Lynn &c." | 189 |
Notes: "I bare record & My record is true" | 191 | |
Bibliography: "My Books & papers I find I have a goodly number" | 215 | |
Index: "Well! there it is, & here we are!" | 229 |