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

Buchanan, Thomas C [1967-...] cop. 2004

Available at 33MQB MQB  Bibliothèque de recherche  (F 360 BUC )

  • Title:
    Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world. Thomas C. Buchanan
  • Author: Buchanan, Thomas C [1967-...]
  • Subjects: Noirs américains -- Histoire -- Mississippi, Vallée du (États-Unis);
    Vie fluviale -- Histoire -- Mississippi, Vallée du (États-Unis);
    Mississippi, Vallée du (États-Unis) -- Histoire
  • Description: Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. [223]-246. Index
    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
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill N.C. and London : University of North Carolina Press, cop. 2004
  • Creation Date: cop. 2004
  • Format: 1 vol. (XV-256 p.) : ill., jaquette ill. en coul., cartes ; 25 cm
  • Language: English
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