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BL
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981820
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b736190
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| Main Entry
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Buchanan, Thomas C.,1967-
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| Title & Author
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Black life on the Mississippi : : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world /\ Thomas C. Buchanan.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0807876569
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: 9780807876565
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0807829099
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0807858137
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9780807829097
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9780807858134
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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Thomas C. Buchanan paints a picture of 19th-century Mississippi, documenting the 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. He explores their efforts to link riverside African American communities in the North and South.
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African American steamboat workers-- History-- 19th century.
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African Americans-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
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River life-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
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African American steamboat workers.
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African Americans.
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HISTORY-- State Local-- General.
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HISTORY-- State Local.
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River life.
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Mississippi River Valley, History, 19th century.
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Mississippi River, History, 19th century.
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Mississippi River Valley.
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Mississippi River.
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| Dewey Classification
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977/.020496073
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F358.2.N4B83 2004eb
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