In this exploration of the complex relationship between slavery and freedom, the author documents the variety of experiences among slaves and free blacks who li

All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and

This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in Americathe Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstructi

The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black free