Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / Thomas C. Buchanan
Chapel Hill (N.C.) and London : University of North Carolina Press, cop. 2004
1 vol. (XV-256 p.) : ill., jaquette ill. en coul., cartes ; 25 cm
0-8078-2909-9
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.
Buchanan, Thomas C.
Noirs américains -- Histoire -- Mississippi, Vallée du (Etats-Unis)
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