Author : Gregg Andrews
Release : 2022-12-07
Genre : History
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Shantyboats and Roustabouts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shantyboats and Roustabouts write by Gregg Andrews. This book was released on 2022-12-07. Shantyboats and Roustabouts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.