The Online Books Page

African American sailors

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• Sailors -- United States

• African American sailors -- Biography
• African American sailors -- Diaries

• Henry, George, 1819-
• Thompson, John, 1812-1860

• Afro-American sailors
• Afro-American seamen
• Negroes as seamen
• Sailors, African American

• Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape, Written by Himself (Worcester, MA: John Thompson, 1856), by John Thompson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• On Board the USS Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James A. Dunn, ed. by Mansel G. Blackford, contrib. by John S. Butler (PDF at Ohio State)

• Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape, Written by Himself (Worcester, MA: John Thompson, 1856), by John Thompson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Scarcity of Seamen (second edition; Boston: Press of J. Howe, ca. 1854), by Thomas V. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Man-of-War Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy, During a Voyage Around the World, in a Ship of the Line (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1855), by Charles Nordhoff
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• The Log of the Snark (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Charmian London (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Maritime: A Historical Sketch and a Workers' Program (second edition; New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1945), by Frederick J. Lang, ed. by Terence Phelan (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of American Merchant Seamen (Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1956), by Elmo Paul Hohman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Point Gorda Strike (New York: Marine Workers Industrial Union, ca. 1932), by George Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• Seaman's Rights in the U.S. When Involved in an Accident (in 8 languages; Miami: I. Adels, c1989), by Charles R. Lipcon (PDF with commentary at lipcon.com)

• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)