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Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World Thomas C. Buchanan New edition
Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
Thomas C. Buchanan
All along the Mississippi, nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Exploring the relationship between slavery and freedom, this work looks at the ways African Americans resisted slavery and developed a vibrant culture up and down America's greatest river.
272 pages, 34 illustrations, 5 tables, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 26, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807858134 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 16 mm · 353 g |
| Language | English |