Red Seas : : Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica /

Red Seas : : Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica / / Gerald Horne.

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During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), stands out as one of the most-if not the most-powerful black labor leaders in the United States. Smith’s a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Horne, Gerald,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Sailing from Jamaica
  • 1 Sailing the Red Seas
  • 2 Perilous Waters
  • 3 The Black Ocean
  • 4 Few Safe Harbors
  • 5 Wind in Their Sails
  • 6 Storm Signals
  • 7 Storm, at Sea
  • 8 Walking the Plank
  • 9 Black Labor at Sea
  • 10 Dropping Anchor in Jamaica
  • 11 On the Beach
  • 12 The Final Voyage of Ferdinand Smith
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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