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

Author/creator Buchanan, Thomas C., 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxv, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Subjects
African Americans--Mississippi River Valley. --History. --19th century.
African American steamboat workers--History. --19th century.
River life--Mississippi River Valley. --History. --19th century.
Mississippi River Valley--History. --19th century.
Mississippi River--History. --19th century.

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.
Local noteLittle-341688--3051310456870
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-246) and index.
LCCN 2004009859
ISBN0807829099 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807829097 (cloth : alk. paper)