Sailing to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing to Freedom write by Timothy D. Walker. This book was released on 2021-04-30. Sailing to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
Sailing to Freedom
Sailing to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing to Freedom write by Voldemar Veedam. This book was released on 1959. Sailing to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sailing to Freedom
Sailing to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing to Freedom write by Martha Bennett Stiles. This book was released on 2012-07-03. Sailing to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Ray Ingle asks his Uncle Thad if he can go to sea with him, he knows his parents won't like it. But they're not around, and anything is better than staying with mean old Uncle Slye! To Ray's great surprise, Uncle Thad agrees to take him on, and soon Ray and his pet capuchin monkey Allie are helping out in the galley of The Newburyport Beauty. Ray knows Cook used to be a slave, though now he's free. But when Ray discovers what Cook is hiding in the kitchen pantry, he gets more involved with the question of slavery than he ever could have imagined!
Sailing to the Edge of Time
Sailing to the Edge of Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing to the Edge of Time write by John Kretschmer. This book was released on 2018-11-13. Sailing to the Edge of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Kretschmer is sailing's practical philosopher – as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the overarching theme of this chronicle of a sailing life. Often amusing, sometimes poignant, occasionally terrifying but always inspiring, his deeply personal account is a welcome reminder of the good life waiting at sea. With hundreds of thousands of nautical miles under his keel, John's adventures have taken him several times around the world, with challenging crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific, a narrow escape from a coup in Yemen, an unlikely deliverance from a coral reef off Belize as well as more serene, introspective passages where trade winds are blowing and stories are flowing. His crew has included CEOs, actors, writers, teachers, kids – in essence, everyone. John's narrative is interwoven with practical tips and advice in seamanship, but also, and just as importantly, his hard-won insights about making the most of our lives. He truly believes we find out who we really are, and what we are capable of, far from the shackles of land, when we find a place where time changes shape – days may merge into one another, but minutes are memorable. To live adventurously is to live more fully, and that is the life John Kretschmer continues to live. In this book he shares his simple profundities that will inspire those who live to sail, and those seeking something more rewarding from life.
Small Boat to Freedom
Small Boat to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Small Boat to Freedom write by John Vigor. This book was released on 2011. Small Boat to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Vigor is a writer and a former South African sailing champion. In 1987, John and his family began their new life in America. He now lives in Washington state.
