Charles Benson: Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail Book

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments: "Thanks to kind friends"
	Introduction: "Stranger do not read this Book"	1
Ch. 1	"My Fathers Birth day in 1800": Framingham, 1721-1830	6
Ch. 2	"You ocupy a place in my heart which none never did": Framingham and Salem, 1830-1853	21
Ch. 3	"Jenny kissed me": Salem and At Sea, 1853-1861	41
Ch. 4	"This sea life is hard": At Sea, 1862	61
Ch. 5	"Jenny I want to see you bad": At Sea, 1862-1864	78
Ch. 6	"It seams odd to be confined on ship board": At Sea, 1862-1864	96
Ch. 7	"I feel more than half sick": At Sea, 1864	117
Ch. 8	"How I wish that I could live on shore": Salem and At Sea, 1865-1878	134
Ch. 9	"I am realy upon the Ocean once more": At Sea, 1875-1880	155
Ch. 10	"This going to sea, it will kill me": At Sea, 1880-1881	169
	Epilogue: "Charles A. Benson of this city steward of the Bark Glide"	185
App	"Talking about Salem Beverly Lynn &c."	189
	Notes: "I bare record & My record is true"	191
	Bibliography: "My Books & papers I find I have a goodly number"	215
	Index: "Well! there it is, & here we are!"	229