Race, Class, Labor, and Gender in American Maritime History: An Annotated Bibliography

This bibliography has been developed as part of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH)’s efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of maritime history as well as within its own membership. Please consider this a collaborative work in progress to which additions, annotations, and other suggestions are welcome.

• The Black Experience
• Native Americans
• Women
• Asians
• Labor
• Other

The Black Experience

Abel, Joseph. “Opening the Closed Shop: The Galveston Longshoremen’s Strike of 1920–1921.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 110:3 (2007): 316–47. Concerns the racial composition and division of maritime labor in Galveston.

Albion, Robert G. Seaports South of Sahara: The Achievements of an American Steamship Service. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959. American maritime trade with Africa in the twentieth century.

Alexander, J. Trent. “‘They’re Never Here More than a Year’: Return Migration in the Southern Exodus, 1940–1970.” Journal of Social History 38:3 (2005): 653–71.

Amos, Harriet E. “From Old to New South Trade in Mobile, 1850–1900.” Gulf Coast/South Historical Review 5:2 (1990): 114–27.

Anderson, Harold. “Black Men, Blue Waters: African Americans on the Chesapeake.” Maryland Marine Notes. 16:2 (1998): 1–3, 6–7.

Andrews, Gregg. “Black Working-Class Political Activism and Biracial Unionism: Galveston Longshoremen in Jim Crow Texas, 1919–1921.” Journal of Southern History 74:3 (2008): 627–68.

Arenson, Adam. “Experience Rather than Imagination: Researching the Return Migration of African North Americans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction.” Journal of American Ethnic History 32:2 (2013): 73–77. Provides some introductory insights into the porous nature of the Great Lakes boundary for African Americans in the antebellum and postwar periods.

“Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831.” American Historical Review 30:4 (1925): 787–95.

Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told—Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2016.

Barry, J. M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie. “‘The Slave Ship Imprint’: Representing the Body, Memory, and History in Contemporary African American and Black British Painting, Photography, and Installation Art.” Callaloo 37:4 (2014): 990–1022. Good illustrations.

Billias, George A. “Misadventures of a Maine Slaver.” American Neptune 19:2 (1959): 114–19.

Billingsley, Andrew. Yearning to Breath Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. Smalls was a slave steamboat pilot who broke through Confederate lines with his vessel, Planter, joined the US Navy, (and supposedly was one of Lincoln’s inspirations to accept African Americans into the Union forces) and postwar won places both in the South Carolina and US House of Representatives after founding the Republican Party of SC.

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. “Letters by African American Sailors, 1799–1814.” William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 64:1 (2007): 167–82.

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. “‘To Feel Like a Man’: Black Seamen in the Northern States, 1800–1860.” Journal of American History 76:4 (1990): 1173–199.

Bonazzi, Tiziano, “The United States, Italy, and the Tribulations of the Liberal Nation In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 151–168. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Bond, Horace Mann. “The Negro in the Armed Forces of the United States Prior to World War I.” Journal of Negro Education 12:3 (1943): 268–87.

Bonner, Robert, “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Seas?: Civil War Statecraft and the Liberal Quest for Oceanic Order.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 15–31. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Boris, Eileen. “‘You Wouldn’t Want One of ‘Em Dancing With Your Wife’: Racialized Bodies on the Job in World War II.” American Quarterly 50:1 (1998): 77–108. References Chester Himes’s novel If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945).

Brittan, Jennifer. “The Terminal: Eric Walrond, the City of Colón, and the Caribbean of the Panama Canal.” American Literary History 25:2 (2013): 294–316.

Brooks, George E. “Cabo Verde: Gulag of the South Atlantic: Racism, Fishing Prohibitions, and Famines.”  History in Africa 33 (2006): 101–35.

Brooks, George E. Eurafricans In Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003.

Brooks, George E. The Kru Mariner in the Nineteenth Century: An Historical Compendium. Liberian Studies Monograph Series No. 1. Newark: Liberian Studies Association in America, 1972.

Brooks, George E. Yankee Traders, Old Coasters and African Middlemen: A History of American Legitimate Trade with West Africa in the Nineteenth Century. Boston: Boston University Press, 1970.

Brooks, George E., Jr., and Norman R. Bennet. New England Merchants in Africa: A History through Documents, 1802 to 1865. Boston: Boston University Press, 1965.

Brooks, Mark J., Barbara E. Taylor, and Andrew H. Ivester. “Carolina Bays: Time Capsules of Culture and Climate Change.” Southeastern Archaeology 29:1 (2010): 146–63.

Brown, Matthew D. “Olaudah Equiano and the Sailor’s Telegraph: ‘The Interesting Narrative’ and the Source of Black Abolitionism.” Callaloo 36:1 (2013): 191–201.

Brown, Thomas H. “The African Connection: Cotton Mather and the Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721–1722.” JAMA 260:15 (1988): 2247–49.

Brown, William B. Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself. Boston: The Anti-slavery Office, 1847.Documenting the American South. Slave Narratives.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/brown47/menu.html By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book’s popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown’s notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recounts his years in servitude, his cruel masters, and the brutal whippings he and those around him received. He provides a detailed description of his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture, they were sold to new masters. A subsequent escape attempt succeeds. He is taken in by a kind Quaker, Wells Brown, whose name he adopts in gratitude. Shortly thereafter, Brown crosses the Canadian border. Brown’s Narrative includes stories of fighting devious slave traders and bounty hunters, various antislavery poems, articles and stories (written by him and others), newspaper clippings, reward posters, and slave sale announcements.

Bryant, Jonathan M. Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope. 2015. A professor of history who specializes in slavery and constitutional law investigates one of the most significant—and unjustly forgotten—Supreme Court cases in American history involving the slave ship Antelope and the three hundred African lives at stake.

Buchanan, Thomas C. “Rascals on the Antebellum Mississippi: African-American Steamboat Workers and the St. Louis Hanging of 1841.” Journal of Social History 34:4 (2001): 797–816.

Buchanan, Thomas C. Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Butler, Leslie, “Lincoln as the Great Educator: Opinion and Educative Liberalism in the Civil War Era.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 49–66. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Campbell, James T. Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.

Carey, Anthony G. Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011.

Cecelski, David S. “Moses Grandy: A Slave Waterman’s Life.” Tributaries 4 (1994): 6–13.

Cecelski, David S. “The Shores of Freedom: The Maritime Underground Railroad in North Carolina, 1800–1861.” North Carolina Historical Review 71:2 (1994): 174–206.

Cecelski, David S. The Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Cecelski, David. “The Last Daughter of Davis Ridge: Slavery and Freedom in the Maritime South.” In Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 104–15. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005.

Chambers, Stephen M. No God but Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States. London: Verso, 2017.

Chiarappa, Michael J. “New York City’s Oyster Barges: Architecture’s Threshold Role along the Urban Waterfront.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 14 (2007): 84–108.

Chiarappa, Michael J. “Working the Delaware Estuary: African American Cultural Landscapes and the Contours of Environmental Experience.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 25:1 (2018): 64–91. African American work patterns, particularly those concerned with the handling and extraction of natural resources or labor in agricultural or industrial settings, have been at the heart of efforts to better understand black environmental experience. African Americans long participated in the environmental dynamics and transformation of the region defined by the Delaware Estuary and the use of its marine resources. This legacy has been visible principally through Thomas Eakins’s well-known scenes depicting African Americans working in the region’s shad fisheries or guiding railbird hunters through once bountiful wild rice areas and marsh. The Delaware Estuary’s reach within Philadelphia’s metropolitan sphere was critically influenced by environmental experience forged in the cultural landscapes of African Americans.

Clavin, Matthew J. “An ‘Underground Railway’ to Pensacola and the Impending Crisis over Slavery.” Florida Historical Quarterly 92:4 (2014): 685–713.

Clayton, Ralph. Cash for Blood: The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade. Westminster: Heritage Books, 2007.

Cole, Peter. “Philadelphia’s Lords of the Docks: Interracial Unionism Wobbly-Style.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 6:3 (2007): 310–38.

Connors, Anthony J. Went to the Devil: A Yankee Whaler in the Slave Trade. Amherst: Bright Leaf, 2019.

Cornell, Sarah E. “Citizens of Nowhere: Fugitive Slaves and Free African Americans in Mexico, 1833–1857.”Journal of American History 100:2 (September 2013): 351–74.

Coughtry, Jay. The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700–1807. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

Cuffee, Paul. Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, a Man of Colour: To Which is Subjoined the Epistle of the Society of Sierra Leone, in Africa, &c., 1811. Reprint Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, 2006. Perfect bound

Davis, Colin J. “‘Shape or Fight?’: New York’s Black Longshoremen, 1945–1961.” International Labor and Working-Class History 62 (2002): 143–63.

Davis, John W. “The Negro in the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.” Journal of Negro Education 12:3 (1943): 345–49.

Davison, Stanley R. “White Hopes of the Big Muddy.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 9:2 (1959): 2–15.

Dawson, Kevin. “Enslaved Ship Pilots in the Age of Revolutions: Challenging Notions of Race and Slavery between the Boundaries of Land and Sea.” Journal of Social History 47:1 (2013): 71–100.

Dawson, Kevin. “Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in Atlantic World.” Journal of American History 92:4 (2006): 1327–55.

Dawson, Kevin. “Enslaved Underwater Divers in the Atlantic World.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 61–76. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Deyle, Steven. “‘The Irony of Liberty: Origins of the Domestic Slave Trade.” Journal of the Early Republic 12:1 (1992): 37–62.

Deyle, Steven. “An ‘Abominable’ New Trade: The Closing of the African Slave Trade and the Changing Patterns of U.S. Political Power, 1808–60.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3^rd ser., 66:4 (2009): 833–50. Internal slave trade.

Deyle, Steven. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 98–105.

Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Dodd, Dorothy. “Captain Bunce’s Tampa Bay Fisheries, 1835–1840.” Florida Historical Quarterly 25:3 (1947): 246–56.

Donnan, Elizabeth. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America 4 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1930–35. Vol. 1, 1441–1700. Vol. 2, The Eighteenth Century. Vol. 3, New England and the Middle Colonies. Vol. 4, The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies.

Douglass, Frederick. “Cheap Labor.” New National Era, August 17, 1871, 21.

Douglass, Frederick. “The Dolores Ugarte.” The New National Era, August 17, 1871, 3. Newspaper account about the loss of the coolie ship Dolores Ugarte.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). In The Portable Frederick Douglass, ed. by John Stauffer and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 3–100. New York: Penguin, 2016.

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Dunklin, Arthur L. African American Men and Opportunity in the Navy: Personal Histories of Eight Chiefs. Jefferson: McFarland, 2008.

Egerton, Douglas R. “Slaves to the Marketplace: Economic Liberty and Black Rebelliousness in the Atlantic World.” Journal of the Early Republic 26:4 (2006): 617–39.

Eltis, David, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson. “Agency and Diaspora in Atlantic History: Reassessing the African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas.” American Historical Review 112:5 (2007): 1329–58.

Eltis, David. “The U.S. Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644–1867: An Assessment.” Civil War History 54:4 (2008): 347–78.

Eltis, David. “Was Abolition of the U.S. and British Slave Trade Significant in the Broader Atlantic Context?” William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 66:4 (2009): 715–36.

Equiano, Olaudah. The Life of Olaudah Equiano. Edited by Joslyn T. Pine. Mineola: Dover, 1999.

Farr, James. “A Slow Boat to Nowhere: The Multi-Racial Crews of the American Whaling Industry.” Journal of Negro History 68:2 (1983): 159–70.

Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. New York: Ballantine Books, 2006.

Farrow, Anne. The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2016. In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner’s son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut’s slave trade and question how we could have forgotten this part of our past so completely. When writer Anne Farrow discovered the significance of the logbooks for the Africa and two other ships in 2004, her mother had been recently diagnosed with dementia. As Farrow bore witness to the impact of memory loss on her mother’s sense of self, she also began a journey into the world of the logbooks and the Atlantic slave trade, eventually retracing part of the Africa’s long-ago voyage to Sierra Leone. As the narrative unfolds in The Logbooks, Farrow explores the idea that if our history is incomplete, then collectively we have forgotten who we are—a loss that is in some ways similar to what her mother experienced. Her meditations are well rounded with references to the work of writers, historians, and psychologists.

Faussette, Risa. “Race, Migration, and Port City Radicalism: New York’s Black Longshoremen and the Politics of Maritime Protest, 1900–1920.” Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York, 2002.

Ferrer, Ada. “Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic.” American Historical Review 117:1 (2012): 40–66.

Fett, Sharla M. Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Finkelman, Paul. “Regulating the African Slave Trade.” Civil War History 54:4 (2008): 379–405.

Finkelman, Paul. “Suppressing American Slave Traders in the 1790s.” OAH Magazine of History 18:3, The Atlantic World (2004): 51–55.

Fleche, Andre M. “Race and Revolution: The Confederacy, Mexico, and the Problem of Southern Nationalism.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 189–203. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Fleszar, Mark J. “‘My Laborers in Haiti Are Not Slaves’: Proslavery Fictions and a Black Colonization Experiment on the Northern Coast, 1835–1846.” Journal of the Civil War Era 2:4 (2012): 478–510.

Ford, Lacy K. “Making the ‘White Man’s Country’ White: Race, Slavery, and State-Building in the Jacksonian South.” Journal of the Early Republic 19:4 (1999): 713–37.

Foy, Charles R. “Possibilities and Limits for Freedom: Maritime Fugitives in British North America, ca. 1713–1783.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 47–60. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Foy, Charles. “Ports of Slavery, Ports of Freedom: How Slaves Used Northern Seaports’ Maritime Industry to Escape and Create Transatlantic Identities, 1713–83.” PhD diss. Rutgers, The State Univ. of NJ, 2008.

Freyer, Tony Allan. The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States’ Rights in Antebellum America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014. Muse Book—chapters can be downloaded.

Galenson, David W. “White Servitude and the Growth of Black Slavery in Colonial America.” Journal of Economic History 41:1, The Tasks of Economic History (1981): 39–47.

Galenson, David W. White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1994.

Gares, Albert J., and Stephen Girard. “Stephen Girard’s West Indian Trade 1789–1812.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 72:4 (1948): 311–42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20088028

Garland, Charles, and Herbert S. Klein. “The Allotment of Space for Slaves aboard Eighteenth-Century British Slave Ships.” William and Mary Quarterly 42:2 (1985): 238–48.

Gigantino, James J., II. “Trading in Jersey Souls: New Jersey and the Interstate Slave Trade.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77:3 (2010): 281–302. 

Gilbert, Geoffrey. “Maritime Enterprise in the New Republic: Investment in Baltimore Shipping, 1789–1793.” Business History Review 58:1 (1984): 14–29.

Girard, Philippe R. “Black Talleyrand: Toussaint Louverture’s Diplomacy, 1798–1802.” William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 66:1 (2009): 87–124. 

Gordinier, Glenn S., ed. Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Gordinier, Glenn S., ed. Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005.

Gould, Eliga H. “Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: The Legal Geography of the British Atlantic, circa 1772.” William and Mary Quarterly 60:3 (2003): 471–510.

Gourevitch, Alex. From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These “labor republicans” derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics.

Grandin, Greg. Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World. New York: Picador, 2015. One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren’t. In fact, they were performing an elaborate ruse, having risen up earlier and slaughtered most of the crew and officers. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception—that the men and women he thought were humble slaves were actually running the ship—he rallied his crew to respond with explosive violence. ¶Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity is the untold history of this extraordinary event and its bloody aftermath. Delano’s blindness that day has already inspired one masterpiece—Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin returns to these dramatic events to paint an indelible portrait of a world in the throes of revolution, providing a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas-and capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.

Grandin, Greg, and Alex Gourevitch. “Slavery and Capitalism: An Interview with Greg Grandin.” Jacobin (8/2014). https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/capitalism-and-slavery-an-interview-with-greg-grandin

Grandy, Moses, dictated to George Thompson. Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America. Boston: Oliver Johnson, 1841. Grandy was a slave waterman and vessel pilot in North Carolina who bought his freedom twice before finally succeeding on his third attempt. He became a noted abolitionist while working in Boston-area shipyards and as a mariner. Since he was illiterate, he dictated his story, which he also planned would generate funds so he could buy his family’s freedom.

Gratton, Brian. “Race or Politics?: Henry Cabot Lodge and the Origins of the Immigration Restriction Movement in the United States.” Journal of Policy History 30:1 (2018): 128–57.

Greene, Lorenzo J. “The Negro in the Armed Forces of the United States, 1619–1783.” Negro History Bulletin 14:6 (1951): 123–38.

Gudmestad, Robert H. Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

Gutoff, Jonathan M. “Fugitive Slaves and Ship-Jumping Sailors: The Enforcement and Survival of Coerced Labor.” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 9:1 (2006): 87–116.

Guyatt, Nicholas, “Tocqueville’s Prophecy: The United States and the Caribbean, 1850–1871.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 205–29. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Hamer, Philip M. “Great Britain, the United States, and the Negro Seamen Acts, 1822–1848.” Journal of Southern History 1:1 (1935): 3–28.

Han, Eunsun Celeste. “Making a Black Pacific: African Americans and the Formation of Transpacific Community Networks, 1865–1872.” Journal of African American History 101:1–2 (2016): 23–48.

Handler, J. S. “Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America.” Slavery and Abolition 23:1 (2002): 25–56.

Hardesty, Jared Ross. Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England. Amherst: Bright Leaf, 2019.

Hardesty, Jared Ross. “‘The Negro at the Gate’: Enslaved Labor in Eighteenth-Century Boston.” New England Quarterly 87:1 (2014): 72–98.

Hardesty, Jared. Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

Hardy, Penelope K., and Helen M. Rozwadowski. “Maury for Modern Times: Navigating a Racist Legacy in Ocean Science.” Oceanography 33:3 (2020): 8–13. Amid recent calls in the United States and elsewhere to remove statues and other references that glorify historically racist figures, we offer a reexamination of nineteenth-century naval officer and early ocean scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury. While Maury made significant contributions toward understanding and representing the ocean-atmosphere system and argued for increased support from both government and the public for such studies, his work, including his science, was also inextricably involved in his nation’s imperialist goals. Before and after his resignation from the United States Navy to join the Confederacy during the American Civil War, Maury worked for the perpetuation and expansion of race-based slavery. For these reasons, we argue that oceanographers, historians, and the public need to rethink depictions of Maury that glorify his accomplishments without interrogating their darker side. Presenting honest portrayals is not only historically responsible but also aids the larger endeavor to recruit and retain more diverse students and scientists for ocean science. 

Harmon, Judd. “Suppress and Protect: The United States Navy, the African Slave Trade, and Maritime Commerce, 1794–1862.” PhD diss. Coll. of William and Mary, Lyon Gardiner Tyler University, 1977.

Harris, Gail. A Woman’s War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy’s First African American Female Intelligence Officer. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Harris, Lynn B. Patroons & Periaguas: Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014.

Harrison, Victoria L. “Man in the Middle: Conway Barbour and the Free Black Experience in Antebellum Louisville.” Ohio Valley History 10:4 (2010): 25–45. Project Hartigan-O’Connor, Ellen. “‘She Said She did not Know Money’: Urban Women and Atlantic Markets in the Revolutionary Era.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4:2 (2006): 322–52.

Hawthorne, Walter. From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830. Cambridge, 2010.  ¶An Africanist by training, historian Hawthorne (Michigan State Univ.) transitions smoothly to Brazilianist in this important work that builds on his earlier West African research (Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves), which demonstrated that small-scale societies sometimes participated successfully in slaving, as did major states. This latest project effectively uses the recent Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database along with archival material from three continents and his own fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau and Brazil. Portugal’s venerable Amazonian colonies of Maranhão and Pará developed into substantial agricultural producers only after 1750, when large numbers of West African slaves became available. Unlike other studies tracing Africans very generally to scattered regions in the Americas, Hawthorne’s is quite specific in pinpointing the presence and impact of Upper Guineans in Amazonia. He documents their vital contributions to cotton and especially rice production, along with significant cultural retentions and religious adaptations. The data enable precise identification of Guineans from particular ethnic groups, though slave imports from other regions predominated after 1800. Hawthorne makes large claims for his books’ originality, but the book largely justifies them. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Academic and larger public libraries, undergraduates and above. —T. P. Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Head, David. “New Nations, New Connections: Spanish American Privateering from the United States and the Development of Atlantic Relations.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 11:1 (2013): 161–75.

Head, David. Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. 201 pp. 05–06

Head, David. “Slave Smuggling by Foreign Privateers: The Illegal Slave Trade and the Geopolitics of the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 33:3 (2013): 433–62.

Hirshfield, Deborah. “Gender, Generation, and Race in American Shipyards in the Second World War.” International History Review 19:1 (1997): 131–45.

Honeck, Mischa, “Uprooted Emancipators: Transatlantic Abolitionism and the Politics of Belonging.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 109–126. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Honeck, Mischa. “‘Freemen of All Nations, Bestir Yourselves’: Felice Orsini’s Transnational Afterlife and the Radicalization of America.” Journal of the Early Republic 30:4 (2010): 587–615.

Horne, Gerald. Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Howard, Rosalyn. “‘Looking For Angola’: An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Search for a Nineteenth Century Florida Maroon Community and its Caribbean Connections.” Florida Historical Quarterly 92:1 (2013): 32–68.

Hunt, Monica. “Organized Labor along Savannah’s Waterfront: Mutual Cooperation among Black and White Longshoremen, 1865–1894.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 92:2 (2008): 177–99.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” New York: Amistad, 2018.

“It’s Nice To Be Remembered!” Negro History Bulletin 45:3 (1982): 58–60. A brief history of the Golden Thirteen, the first African Americans to graduate from OCS, in 1944.

Jackson, L. P. “Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution.” Journal of Negro History 27:3 (1942): 247–87.

Jea, John. The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher. Compiled and Written by Himself:  Electronic Edition.

Jenkins, Robin Dearmon. “Linking up the Golden Gate: Garveyism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1919–1925.” Journal of Black Studies 39:2 (2008): 266–80.

Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom.Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

Jordan, Jim. “Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar and the Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 93:3 (2009): 247–90.

Joyner, Charles W. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. 25th anniversary ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Kahrl, Andrew W. “‘The Slightest Semblance of Unruliness’: Steamboat Excursions, Pleasure Resorts, and the Emergence of Segregation Culture on the Potomac River.” Journal of American History 94:4 (2008): 1108–36.

Kahrl, Andrew W. The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Karp, Matthew J. “Slavery and American Sea Power: The Navalist Impulse in the Antebellum South.”  Journal of Southern History 77:2 (2011): 283–324.

Karp, Matthew J. This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.

Kaye, A. “The Second Slavery: Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century South and the Atlantic World.” Journal of Southern History 75:3 (2009): 627–50.

Kazanjian, David. “Mercantile Exchanges, Mercantilist Enclosures: Racial Capitalism in the Black Mariner Narratives of Venture Smith and John Jea.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3:1 (2003): 147–78.

Kelley, Sean M. “American Rum, African Consumers, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” African Economic History 46:2 (2018): 1–29.

Kelley, Sean M. Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage.

Kenney, William. “Jazz on the Waterways: Movement, Migration, and Music.” In Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 50–61. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005.

Kenny, Gale L. “Manliness and Manifest Racial Destiny: Jamaica and African American Emigration in the 1850s.” Journal of the Civil War Era 2:2 (2012): 151–78.

Kimeldorf, Howard, and Robert Penney. “‘Excluded’ by Choice: Dynamics of Interracial Unionism on the Philadelphia Waterfront 1910–1930.” International Labor and Working-Class History:51 (1997): 50–71.

Klooster, Wim, ed. Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World: Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Klooster, Wim, and Alfred Padula, eds. The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination. Upper Saddle River: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005.

Knoblock, Glenn A. African American World War II Casualties and Decorations in the Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine; A Comprehensive Record. Jefferson: McFarland, 2009.

Lago, Enrico Dal. “Nation-Building, Civil War, and Social Revolution in the Confederate South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1860–1865.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 169–185. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Langley, Harold D. “The Negro in the Navy and Merchant Service—1789–1860 1798.” Journal of Negro History 52:4 (1967): 273–86.

Lemire, Elise Virginia. Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. In Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century.

Lindsay, Lisa A. Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Linebaugh, Peter and Rediker, Marcus Buford. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

Lineberry, Cate. Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero. New York: Picador, 2018.

Littlefield, Daniel C. “The Slave Trade to Colonial South Carolina: A Profile.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 101:2 (2000): 110–41.

Lloyd, Christopher. The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century. 2^nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1968; 2016?.

Lovejoy, Paul E. “Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African.” Slavery and Abolition 27:3 (2006): 317–47.

Lynch, Timothy G. “Black Ahab of the Bay: William T. Shorey and the San Francisco Whale Fishery.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 135–42. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

MacGregor, Morris J., Jr. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940–1965. Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, 1981. Explores the services’ experience in World War II, the move to integration, the tensions that persisted thereafter up to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. covers mainly Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Malcomson, Thomas. “Freedom by Reaching the Wooden World: American Slaves and the British Navy during the War of 1812.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 22 (2012): 361–92.

Mancini, Jason R. “Beyond Reservation: Indians, Maritime Labor, and Communities of Color from Eastern Long Island Sound, 1713–1861.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 23–46. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Mancini, Jason R. “Beyond Reservation: Indians, Maritime Labor, and Communities of Color from Eastern Long Island Sound, 1713–1861.” Connecticut History Review 54:1 (2015): 143–63.

Mancke, Elizabeth. “Spaces of Power in the Early Modern Northeast.” In New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons, ed. by Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid, . Toronto: McGill Queens University Press, 2006.

Manegold, Catherine S. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Tells the saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. This title follows the tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean.

Maris-Wolf, Ted. “‘Of Blood and Treasure’: Recaptive Africans and the Politics of Slave Trade Suppression.” Journal of the Civil War Era 4:1 (2014): 53–83.

Marques, Leonardo. “Slave Trading in a New World: The Strategies of North American Slave Traders in the Age of Abolition.” Journal of the Early Republic 32:2 (2012): 233–60.

Marques, Leonardo. The United States and the Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776–1867. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Martin, Zachary. “Jack Tar’s Perilous World: Privateers, Impressed Seafarers, Whalemen, Nautical Abolitionists, and Traumatic Memory in the American Maritime Narrative.” PhD diss. Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, 2013.

Mason, Matthew E. “Slavery Overshadowed: Congress Debates Prohibiting the Atlantic Slave Trade to the United States, 1806–1807.” Journal of the Early Republic 20:1 (2000): 59–81.

Mason, Matthew. “The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators: Great Britain, the United States, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century.” William and Mary Quarterly 59:3 (2002): 665–96.

May, Robert E. “Reconsidering Antebellum U.S. Women’s History: Gender, Filibustering, and America’s Quest for Empire.” American Quarterly 57:4 (2005): 1155–188.

May, Robert E. Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. “Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas’s famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas’s assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into the Union as slave states. A skeptic about “Manifest Destiny,” Lincoln opposed the war with Mexico, condemned Americans invading Latin America, and warned that Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” doctrine would unleash U.S. slaveholders throughout Latin America. This book internationalizes America’s showdown over slavery, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry and Lincoln’s Civil War scheme to resettle freed slaves in the tropics.”

Mayne, Alan. “Guardians at the Gate: Quarantine and Racialism in Two Pacific Rim Port Cities, 1870–1914.” Urban History 35:2 (2008): 255–74.

McCormack, Lauren, Anne Grimes Rand, and Kristin K. Gallas. “‘I never had any better fighters”: Black Sailors in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 87–100. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

McMillan, Richard. “Journey of Lost Souls: New Orleans to Natchez Slave Trade of 1840.” Gulf Coast Historical Review 13 (1998): 49–59.

McMillan, Richard. “Savannah’s Coastal Slave Trade: A Quantitative Analysis of Ship Manifests, 1840–1850.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 78:2 (1994): 339–59.

Miller, Jacquelyn C. “The Wages of Blackness: African American Workers and the Meanings of Race during Philadelphia’s 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129:2 (2005): 163–94.

Millett, Nathaniel. The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013.

Miles, Tiya. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. New York: The New Press, 2017.

Miller, Richard E. The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932–1943. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003.

Mills, Brandon. “‘The United States of Africa’: Liberian Independence and the Contested Meaning of a Black Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 34:1 (2014): 79–107.

Minchinton, Walter E. “The Seaborne Slave Trade of North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 71:1 (1994): 1–61.

Mitcham, John C. “Patrolling the White Man’s Grave: The Impact of Disease on Anglo-American Naval Operations Against the Slave Trade, 1841–1862.” Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord 20:1 (2010): 37–56.

Mitchell, Memory F. “Off to Africa—with Judicial Blessing.” North Carolina Historical Review 53:3 (1976): 265–87.

Moebs, Thomas Truxtun. Black Soldiers—Black Sailors—Black Ink: A Research Guide on African-Americans in U.S. Military History, 1526–1900. Chesapeake Bay: Moeb Publishing, 1994.

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. 1975. Reprint New York: History Book Club, 2005.

Morgan, Jennifer L. “Accounting for ‘The Most Excruciating Torment:’ Trans-Atlantic Passages.” History of the Present 6 (2016): 184–207.

Murphy, Ric. Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN: First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017.

Murray, Robert. “Bodies in Motion: Liberian Settlers, Medicine, and Mobility in the Atlantic World.” Journal of the Early Republic 39:4 (2019): 615–46.

Mustakeem, Sowande’. “‘I Never Have Such a Sickly Ship Before’: Diet, Disease, and Mortality in 18th-Century Atlantic Slaving Voyages.” Journal of African American History 93:4 (2008): 474–96.

Mustakeem, Sowande’. “‘Make Haste & Let Me See You with a Good Cargo of Negroes’: Gender, Power, and the Centrality of Violence within the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 3–22. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Mustakeem, Sowande’ M. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Nelson, Bruce. “Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II.” Journal of American History 80:3 (1993): 952–88. Focuses on race and labor relations the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company (ADDSCO) was transformed from a struggling ship re- pair operation with about 1,000 irregularly employed workers to one of the nation’s major war production facilities, with 30,000 employees-white and black, male and female-repairing and producing ships for the United States Maritime Commission.

Nelson, Dennis D. The Integration of the Negro into the United States Navy, 1776–1947. Washington, DC:  Department of the Navy, 1948. S&I

Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853. Auburn: 1853.

Nuwer, Deanne Stephens. “Sharing the Work: Biloxi Women in the Seafood Industry.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 157–68. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Nuwer, Deanne Stephens. “The Mississippi Gulf Coast: Casting a Wide Cultural Net.” In Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 92–103. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005.

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O’Malley, Gregory E. “Slavery’s Converging Ground: Charleston’s Slave Trade as the Black Heart of the Lowcountry.” William and Mary Quarterly 74:2 (2017): 271–302. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.74.2.0271.

Obadele-Starks, Ernest. Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007.

Olsen, Peter. “The Negro Maritime Worker And The Sea.” Negro History Bulletin 34:2 (1971): 38–41.

Osborn, Chase S. “The Negro Puts to Sea.” Outlook, Dec 3., 1919, 414–15.

Parker, Jason. “Remapping the Cold War in the Tropics: Race, Communism, and National Security in the West Indies.” International History Review 24:2 (2002): 318–47.

Patsides, Nicholas. “Allies, Constituents or Myopic Investors: Marcus Garvey and Black Americans.” Journal of American Studies 41:2 (2007): 279–305.

Perry, Ronald W. Racial Discrimination and Military Justice. New York: Praeger, 1977.

Power-Greene, Ousmane K. Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2014

Putney, Martha. Black Sailors: Afro-American Merchant Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Putney, Martha S. “Richard Johnson: An Early Effort in Black Enterprise.” Negro History Bulletin 45:2 (1982): 46–47. Brief account of black whaleship owner in the 1830s.

Radburn, Nicholas, and David Eltis. “Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49:4 (2019): 533–65.

Ramold, Steven J. Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. “Excellent”

Rappleye, Charles. Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Reddick, L. D. “The Negro in the United States Navy During World War II.” Journal of Negro History 32:2 (1947): 201–19.

Rediker, Marcus. “The African Origins of the Amistad Rebellion, 1839.” International Review of Social History 58 (2013): 15–34.

Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York: Viking, 2007.

Reid, Richard. “Black British North American Sailors in the Civil War.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 21 (2011): 1–26.

Richard, Jean-Pierre. “From Slavers to Drunken Boats: A Thirty-Year Palimpsest in John Edgar Wideman’s Fiction.” Callaloo 22:3 (1999): 656–64.

Robertson, Natalie S. The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors. Westport: Praeger, 2008.

Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in early Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.  ¶Scraping By is about breaking new ground: the often nasty, unhealthy labor essential to Baltimore’s growth as a boomtown from the 1790s to 1830s. Rockman breaks new ground himself in studying “low-end laborers” (p. 5): slaves, free blacks, European immigrants, and the native-born who struggled to cobble together a few days’ ill-paid toil as seamstresses, stevedores, harbor dredgers, or street cleaners (literally scraping by as manure collectors). His work fits within several bodies of scholarship, including recent labor history incorporating race, gender, and class perspectives, and studies of capitalism that challenge the image of the US as a land of equal opportunity. The author deftly illustrates dependent workers’ contributions by detailing how “casual” labor produced both Fort McHenry and the star-spangled banner that waved over its ramparts. One caveat: while Rockman highlights voiceless, poorly documented Baltimoreans, readers seldom hear their actual voices. Still, stressing the vulnerable, precarious nature of work is timely in the current economic climate of recession-verging-on-depression. Highly recommended. Academic and larger public libraries, upper-division undergraduates and above. —T. P. Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Rojas, Martha Elena. “‘Insults Unpunished’: Barbary Captives, American Slaves, and the Negotiation of Liberty.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1:2 (2003): 159–86.

Ross, Marc Howard. Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Rugemer, Edward B. “Slave Rebels and Abolitionists: The Black Atlantic and the Coming of the Civil War.” Journal of the Civil War Era 2:2 (2012): 179–202.

Rupprecht, Anita. “‘All We Have Done, We Have Done for Freedom’: The Creole Slave-Ship Revolt (1841) and the Revolutionary Atlantic.” International Review of Social History 58 (2013): 253–77.

Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Schermerhorn, Calvin. “Capitalism’s Captives: The Maritime United States Slave Trade, 1807–1850.” Journal of Social History 47:4 (2014): 897–921.

Schoen, Brian, “Southern Wealth, Global Profits: Cotton, Economic Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 69–90. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Schoeppner, Michael A. “Peculiar Quarantines: The Seamen Acts and Regulatory Authority in the Antebellum South.” Law and History Review 31:3 (2013): 559–86.

Schoeppner, Michael A. “Status across Borders: Roger Taney, Black British Subjects, and a Diplomatic Antecedent to the Dred Scott Decision.” Journal of American History 100:1 (2013): 46–67.

Scott, Julius Sherrard. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution. Foreword by Marcus Rediker. New York: Verso, 2018. “Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colourful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. A powerful ‘history from below,’ this book follows those ‘rumours of emancipation’ and the people who spread them, bringing to life the protagonists in the revolution against slavery. Though it has been said that The Common Wind is ‘the most original dissertation ever written,’ and is credited for having ‘opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigour and a commitment to the power of written words,’ PhD project has remained unpublished for thirty-two years, since it was completed at Duke University in 1986. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the new world, it will be released by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by Marcus Rediker.”

Sell, Zach. “Reconstructing Plantation Dominance in British Honduras: Race and Subjection in the Age of Emancipation.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 231–42. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Sexton, Jay. “International Finance in the Civil War Era.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 91–106. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Shelton, Robert. “‘Which Ox is in the Mire’: Race and Class in the Galveston Longshoremen’s Strike of 1898.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 110:2 (2006): 218–39.

Sides, Josh. “Battle on the Home Front: African American Shipyard Workers in World War II Los Angeles.” California History 75:3, African Americans in California (1996): 250–63.

Simmons, Sellano L. “Count Them Too: African Americans from Delaware and the United States Civil War Navy, 1861–1865.” Journal of Negro History 85:3 (2000): 183–90.

Sinche, Bryan. “Citizens, Sailors, and Slaves.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 101–12. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Smallwood, Stephanie, E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. “startlingly graphic experience of the slave trade” Orono

Smith, Benjamin Allen Concannon. “Impatient and Pestilent: Public Health and the Reopening of the Slave Trade in Early National Charleston.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 114:1 (2013): 29–58.

Smith, Billy G. Ship of Death: A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. “It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship’s fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. Billy G. Smith chased the story of the Hankey from archive to archive across several continents, and he now brings back to light a saga that continues to haunt the modern world. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic. In the United States, tens of thousands died in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Charleston. The few survivors on the Hankey eventually limped back to London, hopes dashed and numbers decimated. Smith links the voyage and its deadly cargo to some of the most significant events of the era—the success of the Haitian slave revolution, Napoleon’s decision to sell the Louisiana Territory, a change in the geopolitical situation of the new United States—and spins a riveting tale of unintended consequences and the legacy of slavery that will not die.”

Smith, Christopher J. “Blacks and Irish on the Riverine Frontiers: The Roots of American Popular Music.” Southern Cultures 17:1 (2011): 75–102.

Smith, Thomas Ruys. “Roustabouts, Steamboats, and the Old Way to Dixie: The Mississippi River and the Southern Imaginary in the Early Twentieth Century.” Southern Quarterly 52:3 (2015): 10–29.

Sokolow, Michael. Charles Benson: Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. “At once a social history and psychological history of a working-class Victorian black man from Massachusetts, this book is an important counterpoint to many of the reigning assumptions about what it means (or what it meant) to be black. This is virtually a one-of-a-kind book, because the number of relatively anonymous nineteenth-century African Americans who left such diaries is minuscule…. I expect a significant public readership as well as an academic readership.” —W. Jeffrey Bolster

Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. New York: Washington Square Press, 2007.

Steele, Ian Kenneth. “Exploding Colonial American History: Amerindian, Atlantic, and Global Perspectives.” Reviews in American History 26:1 (1998): 70–95.

Stephens, Michelle A. “Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity: West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution.” American Quarterly 50:3 (1998): 592–608.

Taylor, Mark T. “Seiners and Tongers: North Carolina Fisheries in the Old and New South.” North Carolina Historical Review 69:1 (1992): 1–36. Lots on African-American fishing communities, and women, especially in the post-bellum period.

Thomas, Bettye C. “A Nineteenth Century Black Operated Shipyard, 1866–1884: Reflections Upon Its Inception and Ownership.” Journal of Negro History 59:1 (1974): 1–12.

Thompson, Michael D. Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015.

Thornton, John K. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Tomblin, Barbara Brooks. Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

Tomich, Dale W. The Politics of the Second Slavery. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016.

Tompkins, E. Berkeley. “Black Ahab: William T. Shorey, Whaling Master.” California Historical Quarterly 51:1 (1972): 75–84.

Towers, Frank. “Job Busting at Baltimore Shipyards: Racial Violence in the Civil War-Era South.” Journal of Southern History 66:2 (2000): 221–56.

Trivelli, Marifrances, and Dwayne E. Williams. “Sailing, Shipping, and Symbolism: Marcus Garvey and the Black Star Steamship Line, 1916–1922.” In Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 62–75. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005.

Tyler, Jacki Hedlund. “The Unwanted Sailor: Exclusions of Black Sailors in the Pacific Northwest and the Atlantic Southeast.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 117:4 (2016): 506–35.

Uya, Okon Edet. From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839–1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. An earlier biography of Smalls.

Veasey, Ashley. “Liberty Shipyards: The Role of Savannah and Brunswick in the Allied Victory, 1941–1945.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 93:2 (2009): 159–81.

Vinson, Robert Trent. “‘Sea Kaffirs’: ‘American Negroes’ and the Gospel of Garveyism in Early Twentieth-Century Cape Town.” Journal of African History 47:2 (2006): 281–303.

Warren, Wendy. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. New York: Liveright, 2017.

Weintraub, Elaine Cawley. “Where Were All the Black People Then? The History of the African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard.” In Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 116–28. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005. Capsule histories of Martha’s Vineyard blacks, including several with strong though underreported maritime connections.

Westbury, Susan. “Slaves of Colonial Virginia: Where They Came From.” William and Mary Quarterly 42:2 (1985): 228–37.

Willett, Don. “Another Lost Cause? Maritime Labor Unity on the Gulf Coast Waterfronts.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 43:3 (2002): 315–29.

Williams, Melvin G. Navigating the Seven Seas: Leadership Lessons of the First African American Father and Son to Serve at the Top in the U.S. Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011.

Willie, Clarence E. African American Voices from Iwo Jima; Personal Accounts of the Battle. Jefferson: McFarland, 2010.

Willoughby, Lynn. “Apalachicola Aweigh: Shipping and Seamen at Florida’s Premier Cotton Port.” Florida Historical Quarterly 69:2 (1990): 178–94. Some details on regulations regarding black sailors in Apalahicola in the 1840s.

Willoughby, Lynn. Fair to Middlin’: The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2009.

Winch, Julie. “‘No Common Lot’: An African-American Sailor’s Half-Century at Sea in the Age of Sail.” In Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 38–50. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005. 05–07

Winsboro, Irvin D. S., and Joe Knetsch. “Florida Slaves, the ‘Saltwater Railroad’ to the Bahamas, and Anglo-American Diplomacy.”  Journal of Southern History 79:1 (2013): 51–78.

Wolff, Robert S. “The Perilous Voyage of the Amistad in History and Memory.” In Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2000, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 129–48. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 2005.

Woodrum, Robert H. “‘The Past Has Taught Us a Lesson’: The International Longshoremen’s Association and Black Workers in Mobile, 1903–1913.” Alabama Review 65:2 (2012): 100–36.

Woodrum, Robert H. “The ‘Culture of Unity’ Meets Racial Solidarity: Race and Labor on the Mobile Waterfront, 1931–1938.” Journal of Southern History 84:4 (2018): 883–924.

Wright, David, and David Zorby. Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers. New York: Scribner, 2001.

Yun, Lisa, and Ricardo René Laremont. “Chinese Coolies and African Slaves in Cuba, 1847–74.” Journal of Asian American Studies 4:2 (2001): 99–122.

Zabin, Serena R. Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Dangerous Economies is a history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century, when Britain was just beginning to catch up with its imperial rivals, France and Spain. In that sparsely populated city on the fringe of an empire, enslaved Africans rubbed elbows with white indentured servants while the elite strove to maintain ties with European genteel culture. The transience of the city’s people, goods, and fortunes created a notably fluid society in which establishing one’s own status or verifying another’s was a challenge. New York’s shifting imperial identity created new avenues for success but also made success harder to define and demonstrate socially. ¶ Such a mobile urban milieu was the ideal breeding ground for crime and conspiracy, which became all too evident in 1741, when thirty slaves were executed and more than seventy other people were deported after being found guilty—on dubious evidence—of plotting a revolt. This sort of violent outburst was the unforeseen but unsurprising result of the seething culture that existed at the margins of the British Empire.

Zimmerman, Andrew, “Africa and the American Civil War: The Geopolitics of Freedom and the Production of Commons.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 127–148. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Native Americans

Anderson, Douglas D., and Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson. Life at Swift Water Place: Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2019. A multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in the Kobuk River area. But their status was forever transformed thanks to two major factors. They faced a food shortage prompted by the decline in caribou, one of their major foods. This was also the time when European and Asian trade items were first introduced into their traditional society. The first trade items to arrive, a decade ahead of the Europeans themselves, were glass beads and pieces of metal that the Inupiat expertly incorporated into their traditional implements. This book integrates ethnohistoric, bio-anthropological, archaeological, and oral historical analyses.

Archer, Seth. “Remedial Agents: Missionary Physicians and the Depopulation of Hawai’i.” Pacific Historical Review 79:4 (2010): 513–44.

Argondezzi, Talia. “Charles Lenox Sargent’s Life of Alexander Smith: Imagining Indian Removal in the South Pacific.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12:2 (2014): 241–68.

Arnold, David F. The Fishermen’s Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Askman, Douglas V. “A Royal Traveler: American Press Coverage of King Kalākaua’s 1881 Trip Around the World.” Hawaiian Journal of History 51 (2017): 69–90.

Bahar, Matthew R. Storm of the Sea: Indian and Empires in the Atlantic’s Age of Sail. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. “Storm of the Sea offers a strikingly original history of Wabanaki people (consisting of Abenakis, Penobscots, Passamaquoddys, Maliseets, and Mi’kmaqs) and the colonial and imperial forces they faced from their earliest encounters with Europeans through the late eighteenth century. During that interval, Bahar argues, Wabanakis drew on their spiritually rooted relationship with the sea to develop a highly successful “blue-water strategy” (3) that flouted English and French threats to their sovereignty and peacefully ordered way of life. They did so by selectively adopting the newcomers’ maritime technology, practices, and material assets to wage no-holds-barred warfare and piracy.”—Neil Salisbury

Barsh, Russel Lawrence. “The Omen: Three Affiliated Tribes v. Moe and the Future of Tribal Self-Government.” American Indian Law Review 5:1 (1977): 1–73.

Belko, W. Stephen. America’s Hundred Years’ War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763–1858. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015.

Belko, William S. “The Origins of the Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, the West Florida Revolt, and the No Transfer Policy.” Florida Historical Quarterly 90:2 (2011): 157–92.

Bentley, Shannon. “Indians’ Right to Fish: The Background, Impact, and Legacy of United States v. Washington.” American Indian Law Review 17:1 (1992): 1–36.

Berkey, Curtis G., and Scott W. Williams. California Indian Tribes and the Marine Life Protection Act: The Seeds of a Partnership to Preserve Natural Resources.” American Indian Law Review 43:2 (2019): 307–51.

Bloxham, Steven John. “Aboriginal Title, Alaskan Native Property Rights, and the Case of the Tee-Hit-Ton Indians.” American Indian Law Review 8:2 (1980): 299–331.

Bockstoce, John R. “The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the Kanjġmiut in Kotzebue Sound.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 95:1 (2005): I–78.

Bockstoce, John R. Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade. Fwd. by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Bockstoce, John. “From Davis Strait. to Bering Strait: The Arrival of the Commercial Whaling Fleet in North America’s Western Arctic.” Arctic 37:4 (1984): 528–32.

Boss, Richard C. “Keelboat, Pirogue, and Canoe: Vessels Used by the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery.” Nautical Research Journal 38:2 (June 1993): 68–87.

Boxberger, Daniel L. “The Lummi Indians and the Canadian/American Pacific Salmon Treaty.” American Indian Quarterly 12:4 (1988): 299–311.

Boxberger, Daniel L. To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. Political, economic and technical history of fishing by the Lummi Indians whose reservation is located northwest of Bellingham and whose historical fishing grounds encompass the San Juan Islands. Presents the persistent exclusion of the Lummi from the economic benefits of the fishery over time.

Carlander, Harriet Bell. History of Fish and Fishing in the Upper Mississippi River. N.P.: Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee, 1954.

Chang, David. The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Chaves, Kelly K. “Before the First Whalemen: The Emergence and Loss of Indigenous Maritime Autonomy in New England, 1672–1740.” New England Quarterly 87:1 (2014): 46–71.

Cloud, John. The Tlingit Map of 1869: A Masterwork of Indigenous Cartography. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2012.

Coen, Ross. “Owning the Ocean: Environment, Race, and Identity in the Bristol Bay, Alaska, Salmon Fishery, 1930–1938.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 104:3 (2013): 133–50.

Collins, Cary C. “The Water Is Our Land: The Di·ya· Treaty Council of 1855.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 104:1 (2012): 21–39.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

DeCoster, Jonathan. “Entangled Borderlands: Europeans and Timucuans in Sixteenth-Century Florida.” Florida Historical Quarterly 91:3, 500 Years of Florida History—The Sixteenth Century (2013): 375–400.

Desmond, Jane. “Picturing Hawai’i: The ‘Ideal’ Native and the Origins of Tourism, 1880–1915.” positions: east asia cultures critique 7:2 (1999): 459–501.

Desrochers, Robert E. “‘Not Fade Away’: The Narrative of Venture Smith, an African American in the Early Republic.” Journal of American History 84:1 (1997): 40–66.

Dubcovsky, Alejandra. “Defying Indian Slavery: Apalachee Voices and Spanish Sources in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast.” William and Mary Quarterly 75:2 (2018): 295–322.

Ethridge, Robbie Franklin, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall, eds. Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Ferdinando, Peter. “Atlantic Ais in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Maritime Adaptation, Indigenous Wrecking, and Buccaneer Raids on Florida’s Central East Coast.” PhD diss. Florida International University, 2015.

Ferguson, Karen. “Indian Fishing Rights: Aftermath of the Fox Decision and the Year 2000.” American Indian Law Review 23:1 (1998): 97–154.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, Marie Meade, and Alice Rearden. Akulmiut Neqait: Fish and Food of the Akulmiut. Anchorage: Alaska Calista Education and Culture, 2019. “For centuries, the Akulmiut people—a Yup’ik group—have been sustained by the annual movements of whitefish. It is a food that sustains and defines them. To this day, many Akulmiut view not only their actions in the world, but their interactions with each other, as having a direct and profound effect on these fish. Not only are fish viewed as responding to human action and intention in many contexts, but the lakes and rivers fish inhabit are likewise viewed as sentient beings, with the ability to respond both positively and negatively to those who travel there. ¶This bilingual book details the lives of the Akulmiut living in the lake country west of Bethel, Alaska (on the Kuskokwim River), in the villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak. Akulmiut Neqait is based in conversations recorded with the people of these villages as they talk about their uniquely Yup’ik view of the world and how it has weathered periods of immense change in southwest Alaska. While many predicted that globalization would sound the death knoll for many distinctive traditions, these conversations show that Indigenous people all over the planet have sought to appropriate the world in their own terms.”

Friesen, T. Max. “Event or Conjuncture? Searching for the Material Record of Inuvialuit–Euro-American Whaler Interaction on Herschel Island, Northern Yukon.” Alaska Journal of Anthropology 7:2 (2009): 45–61.

Galginaitis, Michael. “An Overview of Cross Island Subsistence Bowhead Whaling, Beaufort Sea, Alaska.” Alaska Journal of Anthropology 12:1 (2014): 1–24.

Gallay, Alan. Indian Slavery in Colonial America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Gerber, Max E. “The Steamboat and Indians of the Upper Missouri.” South Dakota History (1974): 139–60.

Gibson, James R. “Russian America in 1821.” Oregon Historical Quarterly (1976): 174–88.

Gibson, James R. “Russian America in 1833: The Survey of Kirill Khlebnikov.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 63:1 (1972): 1–13

Gibson, James R. “Sitka versus Kodiak: Countering the Tlingit Threat and Situating the Colonial Capital in Russian America.” Pacific Historical Review 67:1 (1998): 67–98.

Gibson, James R. Imperial Russia in Frontier America: the changing geography of supply of Russian America, 1784–1867. Oxford University Press, 1976

Gibson, James. “Russian Imperial Expansion in Context and by Contrast.” Journal of Historical Geography 28:2 (2002): 181–202.

Grinev, A. V. The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741–1867. Translated by Richard L. Bland and Katerina G. Solovjova. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Guiao, Rebecca Cruz. “How Tribal Water Rights are Won in the West: Three Case Studies from the Northwest.” American Indian Law Review 37:1 (2012): 283–322.

Gunther, Erna, and Axel Rasmussen. Art in the Life of the Northwest Coast Indians. With a Catalog of the Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Indian Art at the Portland Art Museum. Portland: Portland Art Museum, 1966.

Harmon, Alexandra. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities Around Puget Sound. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. The benefit of this work is that it uses fairly sophisticated critical race theory as a lens to interpret extensive historical documentation of Indian identity in Puget Sound country. The chronological development of identity as a creation of the relationship between Indian and white culture is examined using an array of sources collected in legal arguments about tribal status.

Hele, Karl S., ed. Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008.

Hill, James L. “‘Bring Them What They Lack’: Spanish-Creek Exchange and Alliance Making in a Maritime Borderland, 1763–1783.” Early American Studies 12:1 (2014): 36–67.

Kan, Sergei. “Russian Orthodox Brotherhoods among the Tlingit: Missionary Goals and Native Response.” Ethnohistory 32:3 (1985): 196–222.

Karttunen, Frances Ruley. The Other Islanders: People Who Pulled Nantucket’s Oars. New Bedford: Spinner, 2005.

Kashay, Jennifer Fish. “Competing Imperialisms and Hawaiian Authority: The Cannonading of Lāhainā in 1827.” Pacific Historical Review  77:3 (2008): 369–390.

Kessler, Lawrence H. “A Plantation upon a Hill; Or, Sugar without Rum: Hawai’i’s Missionaries and the Founding of the Sugarcane Plantation System.” Pacific Historical Review 84:2 (2015): 129–62.

Knutson, Peter R. “The Unintended Consequences of the Boldt Decision.” In A Sea of Small Boats, ed. John Cordell, 263–304. Cambridge: Cultural Survival, 1989.

Lakomäki, Sami. “‘Our Line’: The Shawnees, the United States, and Competing Borders on the Great Lakes ‘Borderlands,’ 1795–1832.” Journal of the Early Republic 34:4 (2014): 597–624.

Langdon, Steve. “From Communal Property to Common Property to Limited Entry: Historical Ironies in the Management of Southeast Alaska Salmon.” In A Sea of Small Boats, ed. John Cordell, 304–32. Cambridge: Cultural Survival, 1989.

Lewis, O. Yale, III. “Treaty Fishing Rights: A Habitat Right as Part of the Trinity of Rights Implied by the Fishing Clause of the Stevens Treaties.” American Indian Law Review 27:1 (2002): 281–311.

Lipman, Andrew C. “Murder on the Saltwater Frontier: The Death of John Oldham.” Early American Studies 9 (2011): 268–94.

Lipman, Andrew. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Loew, Patty, and James Thannum. “After the Storm: Ojibwe Treaty Rights Twenty-Five Years after the Voigt Decision.” American Indian Quarterly 35:2 (2011): 161–91.

Luehrmann, Sonja. Alutiiq villages under Russian and US Rule. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008.

McDonnell, Michael A. Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2016.

McPhee, John A. The Survival of the Bark Canoe.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1975.

Mentor, Joseph P., Jr. “Fishing Rights: Indian Fishing Rights and Congress: The Salmon and Steelhead Conservation and Enhancement Act of 1980.” American Indian Law Review 9:1 (1981): 121–34.

Metcalf, Paul C. Waters of Potowmack. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982.

Milanich, Jerald T., and Susan Milbrath. First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492–1570. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989.

Miller, Robert J. “Exercising Cultural Self-Determination: The Makah Indian Tribe Goes Whaling.” American Indian Law Review 25:2 (2000): 165–273.

Milner, George R. The Moundbuilders: Ancient People of Eastern North America. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Monaco, C. S. “Alachua Settlers and the Second Seminole War.” Florida Historical Quarterly 91:1 (2012): 1–32.

Mueller, Edward A. “Steamboat Activity in Florida during the Second Seminole Indian War.” Florida Historical Quarterly 64:4 (1986): 407–31.

Mulier, Vincent. “Recognizing the Full Scope of the Right to Take Fish Under the Stevens Treaties: The History of Fishing Rights Litigation in the Pacific Northwest.” American Indian Law Review 31:1 (2006): 41–92.

Michie, Preston. “Alaskan Natives: Eskimos and Bowhead Whales: An Inquiry into Cultural and Environmental Values That Clash in Courts of Law.” American Indian Law Review 7:1 (1979): 79–114.

Newell, Margaret Ellen. Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Nicholas, Mark A. “Mashpee Wampanoags of Cape Cod, the Whalefishery, and Seafaring’s Impact on Community Development.” American Indian Quarterly 26:2 (2002): 165–97.

Norton, Louis Arthur. “The Native American Canoe-wright and Mariner.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 23 (2013): 399–411.

Owen, Thomas C. “Chukchi Gold: American Enterprise and Russian Xenophobia in the Northeastern Siberia Company.” Pacific Historical Review 77:1 (2008): 49–85.

Parker, Cory. “Negotiating the Waters: Canoe and Steamship Mobility in the Pacific Northwest.” Journal of Transport History 35:2 (2014): 162–82.

Pauketat, Timothy R. Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi. New York: Penguin Books, 2014.

Pratt, Anna C., and Jessica Templeman. “Jurisdiction, Sovereignties and Akwesasne: Shiprider and the Re-Crafting of Canada-US Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 33:3 (2018): 335–57. Project Muse

Reid, Joshua L. The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

Ricart, Kate. “Cooking Food Customs in the Pot of Self-Governance: How Food Sovereignty Is a Necessary Ingredient of Tribal Sovereignty.” American Indian Law Review 44:2 (2020): 369–402.

Richter, Daniel K. Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Routledge, Karen. Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Americans at Home and Away. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Shoemaker, Nancy. Living with Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

Shoemaker, Nancy. “Mr. Tashtego: Native American Whalemen in Antebellum New England.” Journal of the Early Republic 33:1 (2013): 109–32.

Shoemaker, Nancy. Native American Whaleman and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Shoemaker, Nancy. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: American in Nineteenth-Century Fiji. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.

Shreve, Bradley G. “‘From Time Immemorial’: The Fish-in Movement and the Rise of Intertribal Activism.” Pacific Historical Review 78:3 (2009): 403–34.

Sioli, Marco. “When the Mississippi Was an Indian River: Zebulon Pike’s Trip from St. Louis to Its Sources, 1805–1806.” Revue Française D’études Américaines 98 (2003): 9–19.

Slatta, Richard W., Ku’ulani Auld, and Maile Melrose. “Kona: Cradle of Hawai’i’s Paniolo.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 54:2 (2004): 2–19. (Paniolo is a corruption of español.)

Sleeper-Smith, Susan. “Encounter and Trade in the Early Atlantic World.” In Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians, ed. by  Susan Sleeper-Smith, et. al., 26–42. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Smith-Peter, Susan. “‘A Class of People Admitted to the Better Ranks’: The First Generation of Creoles in Russian America, 1810s–1820s.” Ethnohistory 60:3 (2013): 363–84.

Stone, Christopher D. “Should Trees Have Standing?–Towards Legal Rights for Natural Objects.” Southern California Law Review 45 (1972): 450–501.

Stowers, Jeffrey W. “A Starving Culture: Alaskan Native Villages’ Fight to Use Traditional Hunting and Fishing Grounds.” American Indian Law Review 40:1 (2015): 41–69.

Taylor, Alan. The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution. New York: 2006.

Van Alstyne, Richard W. “Great Britain, the United States, and Hawaiian Independence, 1850–1855.” Pacific Historical Review 4:1 (1935): 15–24.

Vaughan, Mehana Blaich, and Peter M. Vitousek. “Mahele: Sustaining Communities through Small-Scale Inshore Fishery Catch and Sharing Networks.” Pacific Science 67:3 (2013): 329–44.

Vessels, Rod. “Treaties: Fishing Rights in the Pacific Northwest: The Supreme Court ‘Legislates’ an Equitable Solution.” American Indian Law Review 8:1 (1980): 117–37.

Wadewitz, Lissa K. The Nature of Borders Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea. Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, 2012. <http://site.ebrary.com/id/10599020&gt;.

Wadewitz, Lissa. “Pirates of the Salish Sea: Labor, Mobility, and Environment in the Transnational West.” Pacific Historical Review 75:4 (2006): 587–627. Fisheries late 19^th/early 20^th c. See also her The Nature of Borders.

Weaver, Jace. The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

White, Hannah. “Indigenous Peoples, the International Trend Toward Legal Personhood for Nature, and the United States.” American Indian Law Review 43:1 (2018): 129–65.

Wirth, Rex Sylvester, and Stefanie Wickstrom. “Competing Views: Indian Nations and Sovereignty in the Intergovernmental System of the United States.” American Indian Quarterly 26:4 (2002): 509–25. 

Wilson, Rollie. “Removing Dam Development to Recover Columbia Basin Treaty Protected Salmon Economies.” American Indian Law Review 24:2 (2001): 357–419.

Witgen, Michael. An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard. Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents, historian Michael Witgen re-creates the world of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior of North America.

Women

Beattie, Mary. “Obligation and Opportunity: Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870–1930.” PhD diss. Univ. of Maine, Orono, 1994.

Brehm, Victoria. The Women’s Great Lakes Reader. Chicago: Ladyslipper Press, 2001.

Burton, Valerie. “Fish/Wives: An Introduction.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 37:3 (2012): 527–36.

Cherpak, Evelyn M. “WAVES in the World War II Oral History Project.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 18:3–4 (2008): 185–95.

Cleary, Patricia. Review of Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630–1800. Journal of Social History 33:3 (2000): 697–99.

Crabtree, Sarah. “Navigating Mobility: Gender, Class and Space at Sea, 1760–1810.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48:1 (2014): 89–106. 

Crane, Elaine F. Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change, 1630–1800. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. An investigation of the changing status of women in four New England port towns in which women outnumbered men: Boston, Salem, Newport, and Portsmouth. Argues that women became more dependent and less autonomous over time in terms of their legal, educational, economic, and religious roles. Influenced by present-day notions of the feminization of poverty.

Davis, Colin J. Contested and Dangerous Seas: North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Druett, Joan. Captain’s Daughter, Coasterman’s Wife: Carrie Hubbard Davis of Orient. Orient: Oysterponds Historical Society, 1995.

Druett, Joan. Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Duneer, Anita J. “Voyaging Captains’ Wives: Feminine Aesthetics and the Uses of Domesticity in the Travel Narratives of Abby Jane Morrell and Mary Wallis.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 56:2 (2010): 192–230.

Glenn, Myra C. Campaigns against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.

Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.

Gniadek, Melissa. “‘Outré-mer adventures’: Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll Follow? and the Maritime World.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 32:2 (2015): 196–213.

Goings, Aaron. “Women, Wobblies & The ‘War of Grays Harbor’: Finnish-American Women & the 1912 Grays Harbor Lumber Strike.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 64:4 (2014): 3–21, 89–91.

Goldin, Claudia. “The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women’s Employment.” American Economic Review 81:4 (September 1991): 741–56.

Greenberg, Amy S. “Manifest Destiny and Manly Missionaries: Expansionism in the Pacific.” In Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 231–68.

Harris, Gail. A Woman’s War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy’s First African American Female Intelligence Officer. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Hepler, Allison L. “‘And We Want Steel Toes Like the Men’: Gender and Occupational Health during World War II.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72:4 (1998): 689–713.

Hunt, Margaret. “Women and the Fiscal-Imperial State in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries.” A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660–1840, edited by Kathleen Wilson, 29–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Koehler, Pat. “Reminiscence: Pat Koehler on the Women Shipbuilders of World War II.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 91:3 (1990): 285–91.

Lang, Melissa Cornelius. “‘We were Nothing but Rust’: Beatrice Green Marshall’s Wartime Experience.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 116:2 (2015): 220–33.

Lu, Sidney X. “Japanese American Migration and the Making of Model Women for Japanese Expansion in Brazil and Manchuria, 1871–1945.” Journal of World History 28:3 (2017): 437–67.

Norling, Lisa. Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720–1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

O’Connell, Anne. “‘Take Care of the Immigrant Girls’: The Migration Process of Late-Nineteenth-Century Irish Women.” Éire-Ireland 35:3 (2000): 102–33.

Oreskes, Naomi. “Objectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science.” Osiris, 2^nd ser.,  11, Science in the Field (1996): 87–113. Using example of female scientist involved in submarine gravity measurements in 1920s, Oreskes argues women’s failure to gain attention through science work was not about a lack of objectivity—or even the perception of such a lack—but about the prohibition on their participation in the “heroic” aspects of science, even when that science was actually safe and routine (i.e., going out on a submarine).

Platt, Amy E.. “‘Go into the Yard as a Worker, Not as a Woman’: Oregon Women During World War II, a Digital Exhibit on the Oregon History Project.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 116:2 (2015): 234–48.

Pliley, Jessica. “The Petticoat Inspectors: Women Boarding Inspectors and the Gendered Exercise of Federal Authority.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12:1 (2013): 95–126.

Price, Tara R. “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Stripping Pornography from America’s Workplace: Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc., 760 F. Supp. 1486 (M.D. Fla. 1991).” Florida Historical Quarterly 92:2 (2013): 261–75.

Revelle, Roger. “How Mary Sears Changed the United States Navy.” Deep-Sea Research 32:7 (1985): 753–54. Revelle tells story of how Mary Sears replaced him in a DC oceanography job during WW2. He was pawning off an uninteresting job, which he saw as not likely to contribute, and Sears turned it into something contributory.

Russell, F. S. “Sheina Macalister Marshall 20 April 1806–7 April 1977.” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 24 (November-April 1978): 369–89. Marine biologist Marshall held a BSc, Glasgow University, 1919; DSc 1934. Worked at Millport Laboratory entire career, with stints elsewhere for specific investigations. This memorial doesn’t focus on the “first woman” aspect at all, concentrates on her science, but mentions in passing her needlework, for instance. Did work in and around water, but all shore-based, including 18-month study on Great Barrier Reef. Never married.

Scully, Eileen P. “Prostitution as Privilege: The ‘American Girl’ of Treaty-Port Shanghai, 1860–1937.” International History Review 20:4 (1998): 855–83.

Sparr, Arnold. “Looking for Rosie: Women Defense Workers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1942–1946.” New York History 81:3 (2000): 313–40.

Taylor, Mark T. “Seiners and Tongers: North Carolina Fisheries in the Old and New South.” North Carolina Historical Review 69:1 (1992): 1–36. Lots on African-American fishing communities, and women, especially in the post-bellum period.

Williams, Kathleen Broome. “Women Ashore: The Contribution of WAVES to US Naval Science and Technology in World War II.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 8 (1998): 1–20.  Profiles the remarkable naval career of four American women scientists in World War II—Mary Sears, Florence van Straten, Grace Hopper, and Mina Rees—and discusses their contribution to naval science in the area of computers, meteorology, oceanography, and applied mathematics.

Williams, Kathleen Broome. “Women Ashore: The Contribution of WAVES to US Naval Science and Technology in World War II.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 8 (1998): 1–20.

Zabin, Serena R. “Women’s Trading Networks and Dangerous Economies in Eighteenth-Century New York City.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4:2 (2006): 291–321.

Zhao, Xiaojian. “Chinese American Women Defense Workers in World War II.” California History 75:2 (1996): 138–53.

Asians

Adler, Antony. “The Capture and Curation of the Cannibal ‘Vendovi:’ Reality and Representation of a Pacific Frontier.” Journal of Pacific History 49 (2014): 255–82.

Azuma, Eiichiro. “Japanese Immigrant Settler Colonialism in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands and the U.S. Racial-Imperialist Politics of the Hemispheric ‘Yellow Peril’.” Pacific Historical Review 83:2 (2014): 255–76.

Barde, Robert, and Wesley Ueunten. “Review Essay—Pacific Steerage: Japanese Ships and Asian Mass Migration.” Pacific Historical Review 73:4 (2004): 653–60.

Chang, Gordon H. “Whose ‘Barbarism’? Whose ‘Treachery’? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States-Korea War of 1871.” Journal of American History 89:4 (2003): 1331–65.

Chiang, Connie Y. Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. ¶ Shaping the Shoreline looks at how Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure. Chiang examines Monterey’s development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and again into a tourist attraction. Drawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change.”

Dvorak, Greg. “Who Closed the Sea? Archipelagoes of Amnesia Between the United States and Japan.” Pacific Historical Review 83:2 (2014): 350–72.

Fujita-Rony, Dorothy. “History through a Postcolonial Lens: Reframing Philippine Seattle.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 102:1 (2010/2011): 3–13.

Fujita-Rony, Dorothy. “Water and Land: Asian Americans and the U.S. West.” Pacific Historical Review 76:4 (2007): 563–74.

Fukuzawa, Yukichi, Elichi Kiyooka, and Ishikawa Kanmei. The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi. New York, Columbia University Press, 1966.

Greenfield, Mary C. “Benevolent Desires and Dark Dominations: The Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s SS City of Peking and the United States in the Pacific 1874–1910.” Southern California Quarterly 94:4 (2012): 423–78. Abstract: The career of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s SS City of Peking, 1874-1910, both outlined and undermined the currents of American cultural identity, national policy, industrial development, and immigration and labor history. Most significantly, the roles it played in the establishment of an American Pacific challenged the moral foundations on which the American political system was founded.

Griffith, Sarah M. “Border Crossings: Race, Class, and Smuggling in Pacific Coast Chinese Immigrant Society.” Western Historical Quarterly 35:4 (2004): 473–92.

Jenks, Karen. “The Junior Outing Club, Nisei Identity, and the Terminal Island Fishing Community.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 169–88. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Kalisch, Philip A. “The Black Death in Chinatown: Plague and Politics in San Francisco 1900–1904.” Arizona and the West 14:2 (1972): 113–36.

Kearney, Reginald. “Reactions to the First Japanese Embassy to the United States.” Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies 26:2 (1994): 87–99.

Kohl, Stephen W. “Strangers in a Strange Land: Japanese Castaways and the Opening of Japan.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 73:1 (1982): 20–28.

Kurashige, Lon. “Transpacific Accommodation and the Defense of Asian Immigrants.” Pacific Historical Review 83:2 (2014): 294–313.

Lee, Erika. “The ‘Yellow Peril’ and Asian Exclusion in the Americas.” Pacific Historical Review 76:4 (2007): 537–62.

Lew-Williams, Beth. “Before Restriction Became Exclusion: America’s Experiment in Diplomatic Immigration Control.” Pacific Historical Review 83:1 (2014): 24–56.

Lu, Sidney X. “Japanese American Migration and the Making of Model Women for Japanese Expansion in Brazil and Manchuria, 1871–1945.” Journal of World History 28:3 (2017): 437–67.

Melillo, Edward D. “Making Sea Cucumbers Out of Whales’ Teeth: Nantucket Castaways and  Encounters of Value in Nineteenth-Century Fiji.” Environmental History 20 (2015): 449–74.

Nelson, Scott. “After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or The Search for Liquid Labor.” In Many Middle Passages Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker, 150–65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Schwendinger, Robert J. “Chinese Sailors: America’s Invisible Merchant Marine 1876–1905.” California History 57:1 (1978): 58–69.

Scully, Eileen P. “Prostitution as Privilege: The ‘American Girl’ of Treaty-Port Shanghai, 1860–1937.” International History Review 20:4 (1998): 855–83.

Smith, Joshua M. “‘Hands full with the Chinese’: Maritime Dimensions of the Chinese-American Experience, 1870–1943.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 143–56. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Young, Dana B. “The Voyage of the Kanrin Maru to San Francisco, 1860.” California History 61:4 (1983): 264–75.

Yun, Lisa, and Ricardo René Laremont. “Chinese Coolies and African Slaves in Cuba, 1847–74.” Journal of Asian American Studies 4:2 (2001): 99–122.

Zhao, Xiaojian. “Chinese American Women Defense Workers in World War II.” California History 75:2 (1996): 138–53.

Labor

Abel, Joseph. “Opening the Closed Shop: The Galveston Longshoremen’s Strike of 1920–1921.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 110:3 (2007): 316–47. Concerns the racial composition and division of maritime labor in Galveston.

Bonner, Robert, “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Seas?: Civil War Statecraft and the Liberal Quest for Oceanic Order.” In The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, ed. by Jörg Nagler, Don H. Doyle, and Marcus Gräser, 15–31. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Brunsman, Denver. The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Chiang, Connie Y. Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. ¶ Shaping the Shoreline looks at how Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure. Chiang examines Monterey’s development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and again into a tourist attraction. Drawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change.”

Creighton, Margaret S. “Fraternity in the American Forecastle, 1830–1870.” New England Quarterly 63:4 (1990): 531–57.

Davis, Colin J. Contested and Dangerous Seas: North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Davis, Colin J. “‘Shape or Fight?’: New York’s Black Longshoremen, 1945–1961.” International Labor and Working-Class History 62 (2002): 143–63.

Douglass, Frederick. “Cheap Labor.” New National Era, August 17, 1871, 21.

Dunkin, Jessica. “The Labours of Leisure: Work and Workers at the Annual Encampments of the American Canoe Association, 1880–1910.” Labour / Le Travail 73 (2014): 127–50.

Eyring, Mary. “The Benevolent Education of Maritime Laborers at America’s First Schools for the Deaf.” Legacy 30:1 (2013): 18–39.

Fink, Leon. Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present. Chapel: Hill: North Carolina University Press, 2011.

Garver, Lee. “Seafarer Socialism: Pound, The New Age, and Anglo-Medieval Radicalism.” Journal of Modern Literature 29:4 (2006): 1–21.

Geczy, Adam, Vicki Karaminas, and Justine Taylor. “Sailor Style: Representations of the Mariner in Popular Culture and Contemporary Fashion.” Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture 1:2 (2016): 141–64.

Glenn, Myra C. Campaigns against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.

Glenn, Myra C. “The Naval Reform Campaign Against Flogging: A Case Study in Changing Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment, 1830–1850.” American Quarterly 35:4 (1983): 408–25. Considers the campaign against flogging in the context of the abolitionist movement and the debate over free versus coerced labor.

Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.

Goings, Aaron. “Women, Wobblies & The ‘War of Grays Harbor’: Finnish-American Women & the 1912 Grays Harbor Lumber Strike.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 64:4 (2014): 3–21, 89–91.

Goldin, Claudia. “The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women’s Employment.” American Economic Review 81:4 (September 1991): 741–56.

Gourevitch, Alex. From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These “labor republicans” derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics.

Gutoff, Jonathan M. “Fugitive Slaves and Ship-Jumping Sailors: The Enforcement and Survival of Coerced Labor.” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 9:1 (2006): 87–116.

Hardesty, Jared Ross. “‘The Negro at the Gate’: Enslaved Labor in Eighteenth-Century Boston.” New England Quarterly 87:1 (2014): 72–98.

Hepler, Allison L. “‘And We Want Steel Toes Like the Men’: Gender and Occupational Health during World War II.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72:4 (1998): 689–713.

Hunt, Monica. “Organized Labor along Savannah’s Waterfront: Mutual Cooperation among Black and White Longshoremen, 1865–1894.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 92:2 (2008): 177–99.

Kimeldorf, Howard, and Robert Penney. “‘Excluded’ by Choice: Dynamics of Interracial Unionism on the Philadelphia Waterfront 1910–1930.” International Labor and Working-Class History:51 (1997): 50–71.

Koehler, Pat. “Reminiscence: Pat Koehler on the Women Shipbuilders of World War II.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 91:3 (1990): 285–91.

Lang, Melissa Cornelius. “‘We were Nothing but Rust’: Beatrice Green Marshall’s Wartime Experience.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 116:2 (2015): 220–33.

Langley, Harold D. Social Reform in the United States Navy, 1798–1862. New York: Naval Institute Press, 2015.

Lemisch, Jesse. Jack Tar vs. John Bull: The Role of New York’s Seamen in Precipitating the Revolution. Studies in African American History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 1997.

McEvoy, Arthur F. The Fisherman’s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850–1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ¶ The Fisherman’s Problem is a study of the interaction among resource ecology, economic enterprise, and law in the history of the California fishing industry. It analyzes the ways in which the natural environment not only provided the raw material for economic development but played an active role in it as well. As this book shows, the natural environment has a history both independent of, and yet influenced by, classic example of ‘common property’ re-environmental conservation generally, as well as in the management of the fisheries of the world’s rivers and oceans.

McPhee, John. Looking for a Ship. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991. ¶John McPhee accompanies second mate Andy Chase as he searches for a berth and then on a forty-two day run along the Pacific coast of South America, including such ports as Cartagena, Valparaiso, Balboa, Lima, and Guayaquil―an area notorious for pirates. As the crew make their ocean voyage, they tell sea stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. LP

Mancini, Jason R. “Beyond Reservation: Indians, Maritime Labor, and Communities of Color from Eastern Long Island Sound, 1713–1861.” In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 23–46. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Mancini, Jason R. “Beyond Reservation: Indians, Maritime Labor, and Communities of Color from Eastern Long Island Sound, 1713–1861.” Connecticut History Review 54:1 (2015): 143–63.

Nelson, Scott. “After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or The Search for Liquid Labor.” In Many Middle Passages Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker, 150–65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Nelson, Bruce. “Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II.” Journal of American History 80:3 (1993): 952–88. Focuses on race and labor relations the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company (ADDSCO) was transformed from a struggling ship re- pair operation with about 1,000 irregularly employed workers to one of the nation’s major war production facilities, with 30,000 employees-white and black, male and female-repairing and producing ships for the United States Maritime Commission.

Perry, Jay M. “The Irish Wars: Laborer Feuds on Indiana’s Canals and Railroads in the 1830s.” Indiana Magazine of History 109:3 (2013): 224–56. 

Platt, Amy E.. “‘Go into the Yard as a Worker, Not as a Woman’: Oregon Women During World War II, a Digital Exhibit on the Oregon History Project.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 116:2 (2015): 234–48.

Price, Tara R. “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Stripping Pornography from America’s Workplace: Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc., 760 F. Supp. 1486 (M.D. Fla. 1991).” Florida Historical Quarterly 92:2 (2013): 261–75.

Putney, Martha. Black Sailors: Afro-American Merchant Seamen and Whalemen Prior to the Civil War. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Schell, Jennifer. “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. 

Schwendinger, Robert J. “Chinese Sailors: America’s Invisible Merchant Marine 1876–1905.” California History 57:1 (1978): 58–69.

Sisson, Kelly J. “Bound for California: Chilean Contract Laborers and ‘Patrones’ in the California Gold Rush, 1848–1852.” Southern California Quarterly 90:3 (2008): 259–305.

Sparr, Arnold. “Looking for Rosie: Women Defense Workers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1942–1946.” New York History 81:3 (2000): 313–40.

Tanner, Stacy Lynn. “Progress and Sacrifice: Tampa Shipyard Workers in World War II.” Florida Historical Quarterly 85:4 (2007): 422–54.

Thompson, Michael D. Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015.

Valle, James E. Rocks & Shoals: Naval Discipline in the Age of Fighting Sail. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996.

Willett, Don. “Another Lost Cause? Maritime Labor Unity on the Gulf Coast Waterfronts.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 43:3 (2002): 315–29.

Williams, Kathleen Broome. “Women Ashore: The Contribution of WAVES to US Naval Science and Technology in World War II.” Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 8 (1998): 1–20.

Willoughby, Lynn. “Apalachicola Aweigh: Shipping and Seamen at Florida’s Premier Cotton Port.” Florida Historical Quarterly 69:2 (1990): 178–94. Some details on regulations regarding black sailors in Apalahicola in the 1840s.

Woodrum, Robert H. “The ‘Culture of Unity’ Meets Racial Solidarity: Race and Labor on the Mobile Waterfront, 1931–1938.” Journal of Southern History 84:4 (2018): 883–924.

Wright, David, and David Zorby. Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers. New York: Scribner, 2001. The Pea Island station was the only all African American manned station in the US Life-Saving Service/US Coast Guard.

Zhao, Xiaojian. “Chinese American Women Defense Workers in World War II.” California History 75:2 (1996): 138–53.

Other

Baynton, Douglas C. “‘The Undesirability of Admitting Deaf Mutes’: U.S. Immigration Policy and Deaf Immigrants, 1882–1924.” Sign Language Studies 6:4 (2006): 391–415. When the federal government began in the 1880s to regulate immigration, the exclusion of what were termed “defectives” was one of the primary aims. Deaf people were among the thousands of disabled immigrants turned back each year at U.S. ports as “undesirables.” Stereotyped as economically dependent and as carriers of potentially defective genes, deaf immigrants were seen as a threat to the nation. The advent of immigration restriction was one aspect of a pervasive and intensified stigmatization of disability during this period, which also saw the widespread incarceration of mentally disabled people in institutions, the sterilization of the “unfit” under state eugenic laws, the suppression of sign language, and a growing tendency to exclude disabled people from social and cultural life.

Dunne, W. M. P. “An Irish Immigrant Success Story.” New England Quarterly 65:2 (1992): 284–90.

Eyring, Mary. “The Benevolent Education of Maritime Laborers at America’s First Schools for the Deaf.” Legacy 30:1 (2013): 18–39.

Fouts, Sarah. “The Mafia, La Raza, and the Spanish-Language Press Coverage of the 1891 Lynchings in New Orleans.” Journal of Southern History 83:3 (2017): 509–30.

Friedman, Max Paul. “Beyond ‘Voting with their Feet’: Toward a Conceptual History of ‘America’ in European Migrant Sending Communities, 1860s to 1914.” Journal of Social History 40:3 (2007): 557–75.

Graziano, Frank. “Why Dominicans Migrate: The Complex of Factors Conducive to Undocumented Maritime Migration.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 15:1 (2006): 1–33.

Lee, Kristin Condotta. “Trading Spaces: Commerce, Ethnicity, and Early Irish New Orleans.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 59:3 (2018): 261–307. 

Lew-Williams, Beth. “Before Restriction Became Exclusion: America’s Experiment in Diplomatic Immigration Control.” Pacific Historical Review 83:1 (2014): 24–56.

McGreevey, Robert C. “Empire and Migration: Coastwise Shipping, National Status, and the Colonial Legal Origins of Puerto Rican Migration to the United States.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 11:4 (2012): 553–73.

McGreevey, Robert C. Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Melillo, Edward D. “Feeding ‘La Boca del Puerto’: Chileans and the Maritime Origins of California.”  In Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006, ed. by Glenn S. Gordinier, 113–34. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008.

Nelson, Scott. “After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or The Search for Liquid Labor.” In Many Middle Passages Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker, 150–65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Núñez, Victoria. “Writing the Migration: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and Early Dominican Migrants to New York City.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 36:3 (2011): 111–35.

O’Connell, Anne. “‘Take Care of the Immigrant Girls’: The Migration Process of Late-Nineteenth-Century Irish Women.” Éire-Ireland 35:3 (2000): 102–33.

Perry, Jay M. “The Irish Wars: Laborer Feuds on Indiana’s Canals and Railroads in the 1830s.” Indiana Magazine of History 109:3 (2013): 224–56. 

Snyder, Holly. “Rules, Rights and Redemption: The Negotiation of Jewish Status in British Atlantic Port Towns, 1740–1831.” Jewish History 20:2 (2006): 147–70.

Sullivan, Aaron. “‘That Charity Which Begins at Home’: Ethnic Societies and Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 134:4 (2010): 305–37.

Zane, Sherry. “‘I Did It for the Uplift of Humanity and the Navy’:  Same-Sex Acts and the Origins of the National Security State, 1919–1921.” New England Quarterly 91:2 (2018): 279–306.