Contents

• Introduction / Glenn S. Gordinier
• Contributors
• 1. American expatriates in Canton : national identity and the maritime experience abroad, 1784-1850 / Dane A. Morrison - - 2. "Poor fellow, I sincerly [sic] wish him well" : Peter Woodward’s life course in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Janet Harrison Shannon
• 3. "No common lot" : an African-American sailor’s half-century at sea in the age of sail / Julie Winch
• 4. Jazz on the waterways : movement, migration, and music / William Kenney
• 5. Sailing, shipping, and symbolism : Marcus Garvey and the Black Star Steamship Line, 1916-1922 / Marifrances Trivelli and Dwayne E. Williams
• 6. Carleton Mitchell and the rhetoric of seagoing dreams / Rosalee Stilwell
• 7. The Mississippi Gulf Coast : casting a wide cultural net / Deanne Stephens Nuwer
• 8. The last daughter of Davis Ridge : slavery and freedom in the maritime south / David Cecelski
• 9. Where were all the black people then? : the history of the African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard / Elaine Cawley Weintraub
• 10. The perilous voyage of the Amistad in history and memory / Robert S. Wolff
• Notes
• Index