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• Title:Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / Thomas C. Buchanan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Buchanan, Thomas C., 1967-
  
• Published/Created:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: F358.2.N4 B83 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:African Americans--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.
  African American steamboat workers--History--19th century.
  River life--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.
  Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.
  Mississippi River--History--19th century.
  
• Description:xv, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-246) and index.
  
• ISBN:0807829099 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction : race and the antebellum western steamboat economy
  Ch. 1. From plantation to freedom : African American steamboat workers and the pan-Mississippi world
  Ch. 2. Below the pilothouse : the work culture of steamboats
  Ch. 3. Living blood for gold : African American families and the Mississippi River
  Ch. 4. Boats against the current : slave escapes on the western rivers
  Ch. 5. Rascals on the antebellum Mississippi : the Madison Henderson gang
  Ch. 6. Emancipation and steamboat culture
  Epilogue : the decline of Mississippi River steamboating.