Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / Thomas C. Buchanan, Monographie imprimée
Language: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis.Publication : Chapel Hill (N.C.) and London : University of North Carolina Press, cop. 2004Description: 1 vol. (XV-256 p.) : ill., jaquette ill. en coul., cartes ; 25 cmISBN: 0-8078-2909-9.Contents note: 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 Bibliography: Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. [223]-246. Index.Subject - Topical Name: Noirs américains, Mississippi, Vallée du (Etats-Unis) Histoire | Vie fluviale, Mississippi, Vallée du (Etats-Unis) Histoire Subject - Geographical Name: Mississippi, Vallée du (Etats-Unis) -- HistoireItem type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Prêt normal | BU Chevreul 3ème étage : Sciences sociales | Anglais | 326 BUC (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0378106292 |
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