Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Why Study Antebellum Sailor Narratives
- 1 Stories of Escape, Freedom, and Captivity: Seamen Authors Recall Their Early Years
- 2 Manhood, Nationalism, and Sailor Narratives of British Captivity and the War of 1812
- 3 Exploring the Meaning of Revolution in the Americas: Sailor Narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence
- 4 Defending One's Rights as a Man and an American Citizen: Sailor Narratives as Exposés of Flogging
- 5 Straddling Conflicting Notions of Masculinity: Sailor Narratives as Stories of Roistering and Religious Conversion
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Why Study Antebellum Sailor Narratives
- 1 Stories of Escape, Freedom, and Captivity: Seamen Authors Recall Their Early Years
- 2 Manhood, Nationalism, and Sailor Narratives of British Captivity and the War of 1812
- 3 Exploring the Meaning of Revolution in the Americas: Sailor Narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence
- 4 Defending One's Rights as a Man and an American Citizen: Sailor Narratives as Exposés of Flogging
- 5 Straddling Conflicting Notions of Masculinity: Sailor Narratives as Stories of Roistering and Religious Conversion
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Index
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- Jack Tar's StoryThe Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010