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- African-Americans developed multilog canoes that pioneered the development of the bugeyes and log-hulled deckboats of the Chesapeake Bay during a boatbuilding era that peaked in the first two decades of the 20thcentury. People of African descent in Virginia brought with them boatbuilding, boat handling and fishing experience from West Africa and the Caribbean. Single log dugout canoes were prevalent in the Caribbean and on the east coast of North America, and most accounts of the maritime explorers before and after Columbus describe such boats. One prevailing historical tack in the history of the multi-log canoe in Virginia has been the theory of a direct link from Native American dugout canoes to the adoption and expansion of this technique by European colonists, bypassing the likely influence of both free and enslaved Africans in producing this technology. The masking of African-American influence on a major chunk of nautical history in the Chesapeake has been continued by the history promoted at regional maritime museums, a narrative that highlights the Native American and European colonial development and use of canoes as modes of transportation, commerce and fishing. One goal of this paper is to promote a depiction of the African-American influence on this art, craft and technology in the western Chesapeake Bay, an impact that culminated in large, log-hulled deck boats like the F.D. Crockett, built for power in 1924.
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