Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Why Study Antebellum Sailor Narratives
- 1 Stories of Escape, Freedom, and Captivity: Seamen Authors Recall Their Early Years
- 2 Manhood, Nationalism, and Sailor Narratives of British Captivity and the War of 1812
- 3 Exploring the Meaning of Revolution in the Americas: Sailor Narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence
- 4 Defending One's Rights as a Man and an American Citizen: Sailor Narratives as Exposés of Flogging
- 5 Straddling Conflicting Notions of Masculinity: Sailor Narratives as Stories of Roistering and Religious Conversion
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Index
Appendix
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Why Study Antebellum Sailor Narratives
- 1 Stories of Escape, Freedom, and Captivity: Seamen Authors Recall Their Early Years
- 2 Manhood, Nationalism, and Sailor Narratives of British Captivity and the War of 1812
- 3 Exploring the Meaning of Revolution in the Americas: Sailor Narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence
- 4 Defending One's Rights as a Man and an American Citizen: Sailor Narratives as Exposés of Flogging
- 5 Straddling Conflicting Notions of Masculinity: Sailor Narratives as Stories of Roistering and Religious Conversion
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Index
Summary
The following list contains the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum sailors especially used in this study (I note the first editions of texts but relied on the expanded or revised editions):
1. Ames, Nathaniel. A Mariner's Sketches, Originally Published in the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal … Providence, RI: Cory, Marshall & Hammond, 1830.
2. Ames, Nautical Reminiscences. Providence, RI: William Marshall, 1832; and Hartford, CT: W. Marshall & Co., 1832.
3. Browne, J. Ross. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar … New York: Harpers & Brothers, Pub., 1846.
4. Bunnell, David C. The Travels and Adventures of David C. Bunnell, During Twenty-Three Years of a Sea-faring Life … Palmyra, NY: J.H. Bortles, 1831.
5. Caswell, James. A Sketch of the Adventures of James Caswell, During Fifteen Years on the Ocean … New Bedford, MA: privately printed for author, 1860.
6. Clarke, Cyrene M. Glances at Life upon the Sea, or Journal of a Voyage to the Antarctic Ocean … Middletown, CT: Charles H. Pelton, Printer, 1854.
7. [Cobb, Josiah], A Green Hand's First Cruise, Roughed Out from the Log-Book of Memory … 2 vols. Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Company, 1841.
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- Jack Tar's StoryThe Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America, pp. 179 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010