. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. COASTAL TIDINGS The Waterman ys Song In his new book, The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, David S. Cecelski traces the evolution of maritime slave culture from the black pirates and African boatmen of the 18th century to the slave pilots in North Carolina ports. Cecelski, whose "Historian's Coast" essays have appeared in Coastwatch, sheds light on often overlooked chapters of history. He tells of the black watermen who piloted Union vessels and the slave pilots wh
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. COASTAL TIDINGS The Waterman ys Song In his new book, The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, David S. Cecelski traces the evolution of maritime slave culture from the black pirates and African boatmen of the 18th century to the slave pilots in North Carolina ports. Cecelski, whose "Historian's Coast" essays have appeared in Coastwatch, sheds light on often overlooked chapters of history. He tells of the black watermen who piloted Union vessels and the slave pilots who helped runaway slaves escape by ship. 'The stories of slave watermen's lives usually have to be teased from the barest threads in the documentary record," Cecelski writes. Through steadfast research of slave narratives, he provides. jhE WATERMAN'S SONG insight into the lives of the many African Americans who worked as boatmen, pilots, fishers, sailors, stevedores and shipwrights. His stories capture their struggles along the way to freedom from the colonial era through Reconstruction, from the Great Dismal to the Cape Fear, and from bustling seaports to quiet fish camps. Cecelski is the Lehman Bradyjoint Chair Professor in Documentary and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several other books, including Along Freedom Road: Hyde County. The Waterman's Song is available from The University of North Carolina Press. — CAROLINA S. CECELskl Wetlands Project to be Community Model Airlie Gardens, a popular New Hanover County park, recently began construction of a one-acre rain garden. The man-made wetland project could become a model for alternative methods of catching and treating stormwater. Stormwater from a nearby housing development will filter through the rain garden before running into Bradley Creek — one of many creeks and streams that drains into the environmentally sensitive Cape Fear Ri
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