Black Life on the Mississippi

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 Missi...