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Gerald Horne. Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica. New York: New York University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 359. $45.00.

Gerald Horne has not attempted to write a biography of Ferdinand Smith in the sense of providing details about his personal life or insights into his personality, but he has succeeded in using Smith's life as a central focus around which he narrates and examines the multifaceted history of labor and communism in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s and Jamaica in the 1950s. . . .

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