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'For I Knew A Ship From Stem to Stern...And Could Talk Sailor Like Any Old Salt': Rhode Island's Black Seafaring Men

Newport Historical Society, Neighbor

Posted Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:06 pm ET

LaShonda Barnett will analyze the contributions and experiences of African-American and Cape Verdean seamen and whalemen and the shape of racial thinking in late 18th-century RI’s maritime culture.

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