African Americans and the Mississippi River : race, history, and the environment / Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted.

"This book follows the historical trajectory of African Americans and their relationship with the Mississippi River dating back to the 1700s and ending with Hurricane Katrina and the still-contested Delta landscape. Long touted in literary and historical works, the Mississippi River remains an iconi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zeisler-Vralsted, Dorothy (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Series:Routledge Environmental Humantities
Subjects:
African Americans > Mississippi River Valley > History.
Mississippi River > History.
Mississippi River Valley > History.
Mississippi River > Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River Valley > Environmental conditions.
African Americans.
Ecology.
Mississippi River.
Mississippi River Valley.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 194 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Colonial Era
  • The Antebellum Era
  • A River of Contradictions
  • The Post-War Years
  • The Great Flood of 1927
  • A Modern River
  • Memory Persists
  • Community and Hurricanes.