Halifax

Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor

2:00pm
- 4:00pm
Monday September 1 2014

The Maritime Museum is proud to welcome Professor William B. Gould IV for a presentation about the exciting career of his great-grandfather, the African-American sailor William B. Gould.

William B. Gould's Civil War diary chronicles his daily life in the United States Navy from September 27, 1862, to his discharge three years later, on September 29, 1865. One of the only known diaries of an African American sailor in the Civil War, this document describes his service and life as a sailor on the U.S.S. Cambridge and later on the U.S.S. Niagara.

A prolific scholar of labor and discrimination law, William B. Gould IV is the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School. Professor Gould has been a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1970 and has arbitrated and mediated more than 300 labor disputes. As Chairman of the National Labour Relations Board, he and his agency played a critical role in ending the longest strike in baseball history. He currently serves as Chairman of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board in Sacramento, California.

A critically acclaimed author of ten books and more than sixty law review articles, Professor Gould’s work includes his historical record of the experiences of his great-grandfather in Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor, and his own Washington story, Labored Relations: Law, Politics and the NLRB: A Memoir.

Copies of Professor Gould’s book will be available for purchase after the presentation. 

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