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Author Buchanan, Thomas C., 1967-

Title Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / Thomas C. Buchanan.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
©2004
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 Moore Stacks  F358.2.N4 B83 2004    Available  ---
Description xv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index.
Contents Introduction : race and the antebellum western steamboat economy -- From plantation to freedom : African American steamboat workers and the pan-Mississippi world -- Below the pilothouse : the work culture of steamboats -- Living blood for gold : African American families and the Mississippi River -- Boats against the current : slave escapes on the western rivers -- Rascals on the antebellum Mississippi : the Madison Henderson Gang -- Emancipation and steamboat culture -- Epilogue : the decline of Mississippi River steamboating.
Subject African Americans -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans.
Mississippi River Valley.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African American steamboat workers -- History -- 19th century.
African American steamboat workers.
River life -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
River life.
Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century.
Mississippi River.
Mississippi River Region.
ISBN 0807829099 cloth alkaline paper
9780807829097 cloth alkaline paper

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