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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Rascals on the antebellum Mississippi:African American steamboat workers and the St Louis hangings of 1841. |
Author: | Buchanan, T. |
Citation: | Journal of Social History, 2001; 34(4):797-816 |
Publisher: | Carnegie Mellon Univ Press |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
ISSN: | 0022-4529 1527-1897 |
Abstract: | Explores the process by which four Afro-American steamboat workers of the Mississippi River system, who were hanged in Saint Louis, Missouri on July 9, 1841, created a rascal identity. Description of the execution; Views of slaveholders on the river system; Economic structure of the slave economy; Role of Afro-American mariners on the river system; Variety of ways in which slaves and free Afro-Americans resisted the slave regime. |
Keywords: | African Americans hanging slave labor |
Description: | Copyright © Journal of Social History 2001 |
DOI: | 10.1353/jsh.2001.0045 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2001.0045 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 History publications |
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