Black Jacks
November 21, 2012
http://www.unh.edu/history/index.cfm?id=B6CEA200-07EA-CEBE-4C9607680336C585 Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster Harvard University…
W. Jeffrey Bolster
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