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Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930

Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 - Hardcover

by Gregg Andrews
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gregg AndrewsPublish date:2022-12-07Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807178478ISBN-10:807178470UPC:9780807178478Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.46Product ID:SC86KYSWF2

Winner of the James V. Swift Medal for Excellence in Maritime Literature
Winner of the Missouri History Book Award
Winner of the John Lyman Book Award
Winner of the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History

Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy. Gregg Andrews's Shantyboats and Roustabouts uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807178478ISBN-10:807178470UPC:9780807178478Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.46Product ID:SC86KYSWF2
Gregg Andrews is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University and the author of several books, including Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle.
Publisher: LSU Press

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