He covered his face with his hands for a moment, then dropping them sank back into the chair and called to the black sailors.

But there the matter ended, for at that moment the two black sailors sprang upon us both, and tore him from my grip.

Of the 320 killed, 202 were black sailors working as stevedores.

He was seated between the cook and the black sailor, eating from a common pot.

At first, 258 black sailors said the conditions remained dangerous and they refused.

There, they spotted a black sailor in an officer's uniform.

Becoming a commissioned officer, however was still out of reach for black sailors.

Other southern states also passed laws against free black sailors.

An act also compelled the forced imprisonment of black sailors visiting Charleston.

The Navy had already been pressured to train black sailors for billets.