Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World

by Thomas C. Buchanan

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All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from the perspective of the pilothouse, Thomas C. Buchanan paints a more complete picture of the Mississippi, documenting the rich variety of experiences...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807829099

ISBN13:9780807829097

Release Date:November 2004

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

19th Century Abolition African Americans African-American Studies Agricultural Sciences Historical Study & Educational Resources History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Ships Social History

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