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Two Captains from Carolina
Bland Simpson
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
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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 lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation.
Grandy, born a slave, captained freight boats on the Dismal Swamp Canal and bought his freedom three times before he finally gained it. He became involved in Boston abolitionism and ultimately appeared before the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1843. As a child, Maffitt was sent from his North Carolina home to a northern boarding school, and at thirteen he was appointed midshipman in the U.S. Navy, where he had a distinguished career. After North Carolina seceded from the Union, he enlisted in the Confederate navy and became a legendary blockade runner and raider. Both Grandy and Maffitt made names for themselves as they navigated very different routes through the turbulent waters of antebellum America.
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African American watermen, Boston in the 1830s, Albemarle Sound, Charleston in the 1850s, USS Constitution, Smithville (Southport, N.C.) in the 1850s and 1860s, Reverend John Maffitt (“the Methodist Meteor”), United States Coast Survey, Cape Fear River, Pasquotank River, Antebellum northeastern North Carolina, Dismal Swamp Canal, Galveston Bay and the Civil War, blockade-running in the Civil War, Washington (D.C.) in 1861, Slave watermen, sounding and charting harbor entrances, John Newland Maffitt, antebellum Norfolk Virginia, CSS Florida, blockade runners, Moses Grandy, capturing illegal slavers, Maffitt’s Channel, Great Dismal Swamp, Mobile Bay and the Civil War