Black Life on the Mississippi

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Black Life on the Mississippi
ISBN: 0807829099

Black Life on the Mississippi
The University of North Carolina Press | November 17, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0807829099 | 264 pages | PDF | 4.46 MB

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 blacks who lived and worked on the lower decks and along the river during slavery, through the Civil War, and into emancipation.


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