Description: Sourced from the front flap (image provided with listing): 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 counter-narrative 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 among slaves and free blacks who lived and worked on the lower decks and along the river during slavery, through the Civil War, and into emancipation. Buchanan explores the creative efforts of steamboat workers to link riverside African American communities in the North and South. The networks African Americans created allowed them to keep in touch with family members, help slaves escape, transfer stolen goods, and provide forms of income that were important to the survival of their communities. The author also details the struggles that took place within the steamboat work culture. Although the realities of white supremacy were still potent on the river, Buchanan shows how slaves, free blacks, and post-emancipation freed people fought for better wages and treatment.
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Type: scholarly
Signed: No
Book Series: academic research
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Original Language: English
SKU: 123E30
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Intended Audience: Adults
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Book Title: Black Life on the Mississippi : Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Topic: United States / State & Local / General, United States / 19th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Customs & Traditions, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2004
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Transportation, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 1 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Thomas C. Buchanan
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
