| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Thomas C. Buchanan. Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 256. $32.50.

Given the fact that Jim, arguably the most famous slave in American fiction, escaped down the Mississippi River, it is curious that it has taken so long for historians to chronicle the lives of those bondmen and free blacks who worked the big muddy. A number of able scholars, from Marcus Rediker to W. Jeffrey Bolster to David S. Cecelski, have examined black life in the Atlantic or along its coast, but Thomas C. Buchanan is the first to carry the story inland to the country's largest waterway. In this thoroughly researched and elegantly written book, Buchanan recreates the lives of the tens of thousands of African Americans who labored on the Mississippi and its tributaries from the late antebellum period into the early twentieth century.

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