Life on the Bay, through ebony eyes Hear from three voices working to continue the long-established legacy of African-American maritime leadership. Men of African descent have had a relationship with the waters of the Chesapeake Bay since the arrival of indentured servants in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. Black watermen have enhanced maritime navigation and trade on the Chesapeake Bay during some of the most critical times in our nation’s history. Some of the first blacks to be legally classified as American citizens we.re sailors. Sixty-seven years before the Emancipation Proclamation, the federal government began issuing Seamen’s Protection Certificates, which defined…
I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my…
I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my…
