Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World

by Thomas C. Buchanan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807829099
• ISBN13: 9780807829097
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"