| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2 | The History Cooperative

David S. Cecelski. The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xx, 304. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.95.
Contrary to the title, this book is not about music or music making; it is a thorough exploration of African-American participation in the many occupations of the seashore, tidal areas, and intercoastal waterways of antebellum North Carolina. David S. Cecelski marshals an impressive collection of primary and secondary sources to support his investigation of the contributions of slaves and free persons of color to the vibrant African-American maritime cultures whose range extended from Maine to the Caribbean.	1
Since North Carolina's blacks represented nearly thirty-five percent of the state's population in 1786 and forty-five percent of the total in the tidewater communities from 1800 to 1860 (p. xii), the contributions of African Americans to the state and national economies deserve serious historical and cultural study. Cecelski successfully launches such an investigation by focusing on the laborers in the along-shore and tidal lands of the state's outer banks, principally in two sounds, the Albemarle and the Currituck, both of which are shown clearly in the book's best map (pp. 6–7) of the antebellum maritime region from Cape Fear to Knott's Island.	. . .

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