[PDF.84bt] Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World

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

[PDF.rs91] Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World

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 | #1859647 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2007-02-26 |  2007-02-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.68 x5.50l,.78 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Must Read for anyone interested in history of the Antebellum South|By Haley|I've read this book two times and loved it so much I had to buy my own copy! I am intrigued by the history of the Antebellum era, and Thomas Buchanan presents a well-researched look at life on and around the Mississippi river for African Americans, both enslaved and free. It is a well organized and easy| |"This is a great read for steamboat buffs no less than students of African American history.|(Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University)"

This is social and economic history at its best.|Mark M. Smith, "The Journal of American History"

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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 among slaves and free bl...

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