Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks and the Western Steamboat World.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks and the Western Steamboat World. By Thomas C. Buchanan. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xv plus 256 pp. $32.50).

Black Life on the Mississippi is an extremely well-executed project in social history. It extends recent work that has enriched our understanding of the diversity of slavery in the United States in space and over time. In this case, Thomas C. Buchanan reveals a previously neglected aspect of that experience: Black labor in the shipping industry on the Mississippi River.

...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Party Politics and the Debate over the Tennessee Free Negro Bill, 1859-1860
; ...heated debate over a proposal to expel free blacks from the state. Tennessee was not the...1860, even though by that time most free blacks had already left.1 The standard account...between the economic advancement of free blacks and the growing acceptance of the "positive-go...
SLAVES ESCAPED, FREE BLACKS FLED STATE FOR BETTER LIVES.(FRONT)
; ...in Africa and finance the travel for free blacks who agreed to leave the country. Money...perpetuate slavery. Without the presence of free blacks, they reasoned, slaves would be less...over a period of years, hundreds of free blacks gathered at the Norfolk waterfront...
Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860.(Review)
; ...examination of Norfolk by noting how free blacks were just coming out of the shadows...they came out of the shadows, Norfolk's free blacks tested their status in a variety of...that despite their inferior status, free blacks employed the court system effectively...
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
; ...rather than blighting the lives of free blacks, actually provides the foundation for...Hill and of the whites, slaves, and free blacks in the surrounding Prince Edward County...slaves and where slaves outnumbered free blacks twelve to one. Still, one in every ten...
NEAR FREEDOM BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR, FREE BLACKS WERE TRAPPED BETWEEN WHITES AND BLACK SLAVES.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
; Byline: GEORGE HOLBERT TUCKER FREE BLACKS IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, 1790-1860 The...Napoleon. These native-born Virginia free blacks were soon joined by the arrival of many...slave population. For a time, Norfolk's free blacks, many of whom were skilled craftsmen...
Washington's Shameful History of Racial Bigotry
; ...Congress, that denied basic rights to free blacks as well as to slaves. Not only were free blacks barred from voting, holding office and...not accept the idea of full rights for free blacks. By 1860 Washington, seen as a haven for...
Broken bonds of history; Freed slaves built harmonic community in antebellum Virginia.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)
; ...day-to-day interactions between the free blacks and whites of Prince Edward County...fluidity and free black achievement. Free blacks, Mr. Ely shows, managed to live in harmony...There were legal disabilities that free blacks had to labor under, Mr. Ely says. It...
COLONIZATION OF FREE BLACKS GAVE BIRTH TO A NATION.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)
; ...about the ever increasing population of free blacks. Obviously what was overwhelming good...slavery continue to flourish and felt that free blacks would only start trouble among the slaves...agreement that the best thing to do with the free blacks was ship them back to Africa and ...
Historian Traces Slaves Owned By Md. Blacks
; ...phenomenon: Considerable numbers of free blacks in pre-Civil War America owned slaves...Altogether, there were more than 52,000 free blacks and nearly 103,000 slaves living in...living with" rather than being "owned by" free blacks. Some were not actually owned by the...
As the slave population grew so did that of free blacks
; ...slave population grew so did that of free blacks. By 1856 there were more than 25 free...successful newspaper man. Life for free Blacks in Knoxville was not always easy. Some...from which to get fresh milk. Thrifty free Blacks often bought flour to make wheat bread...