Description:
Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills--swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing--to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Review Quotes: "Kevin Dawson's masterly synthesis goes beyond filling a gap in maritime history: it reconfirms and expands a discourse on maritime traditions of Africans at home and abroad, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries."-- "The International Journal of Maritime History"