Two Captains from Carolina
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In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina — one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791– ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819–1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War–era South. With his ...
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In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina — one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791– ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819–1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War–era South. With his ...
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