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