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Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world / Thomas C. Buchanan.
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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-
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Published/Created:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: F358.2.N4 B83 2004
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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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.
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Description:xv, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-246) and index.
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ISBN:0807829099 (cloth : alk. paper)
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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.