Jack Tar's Story - The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America

Examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It focuses on how mariners remembered/interpreted events including the War of 1812, the Haitian Revolution, South America's wars of independence, flogging on the high seas, roistering, and religious conversion.