Shantyboats And Roustabouts
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Shantyboats And Roustabouts
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Author : Gregg Andrews
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2022-12-07
Shantyboats And Roustabouts written by Gregg Andrews and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-07 with History categories.
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.
Insatiable City
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Author : Theresa McCulla
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-05-10
Insatiable City written by Theresa McCulla and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-10 with History categories.
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city significantly defined by its foodways. Tracking the city’s economy from nineteenth-century chattel slavery to twentieth-century tourism, McCulla uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, postcards, photography, and other material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people. The consumption of food and people, she shows, was mutually reinforced and deeply intertwined. Yet she also details how enslaved and free people of color in New Orleans used food and drink to carve paths of mobility, stability, autonomy, freedom, profit, and joy. A story of pain and pleasure, labor and leisure, Insatiable City goes far beyond the task of tracing New Orleans's culinary history to focus on how food suffuses culture and our understandings and constructions of race and power.
Shantyboat
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Author : Harlan Hubbard
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1977-01-01
Shantyboat written by Harlan Hubbard and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Travel categories.
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
Shantyboat
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Author : Carl R. Bogardus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Shantyboat written by Carl R. Bogardus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Mississippi River Valley categories.
The Adventures Of William Tucker In A Shantyboat On The Mississippi
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Author : George Halsey Gillham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
The Adventures Of William Tucker In A Shantyboat On The Mississippi written by George Halsey Gillham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with categories.
Shantyboat Journal
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Author : Harlan Hubbard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-06-07
Shantyboat Journal written by Harlan Hubbard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The primary source from which grew Hubbard's Shantyboat and other popular books, documenting the journey of middle-aged newlyweds down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and across the Bayous from 1944 to 1951, drifting slowly in the houseboat he and musician Anna built. Includes a few of his drawings. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Waterways Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Waterways Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Inland navigation categories.
Insane Sisters
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Author : Gregg Andrews
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1999
Insane Sisters written by Gregg Andrews and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In 1903, Atlas built a plant on the border of the small community of Ilasco, located just outside Hannibal - home of the infamous cave popularized in Mark Twain's most acclaimed novels. The rich and powerful Atlas quickly appointed itself as caretaker of Twain's heritage and sought to take control of Ilasco. However, its authority was challenged in 1910 when Heinbach inherited her husband's tract of land that formed much of the unincorporated town site. On grounds that Heinbach's husband had been in the advanced stages of alcoholism when she married him the year before, some of Ilasco's political leaders and others who had ties to Atlas challenged the will, charging Heinbach with undue influence."--Jacket.
Hard Times In An American Workhouse 1853 1920
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Author : Gregg Andrews
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2024-10-29
Hard Times In An American Workhouse 1853 1920 written by Gregg Andrews and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-29 with History categories.
Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853–1920, is the first comprehensive examination of a workhouse in the United States, offering a critical history of the institution in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Using the Old St. Louis Workhouse as a representative example, award-winning historian Gregg Andrews brings to life individual stories of men and women sentenced to this debtors’ prison to break rocks in the quarry, sew clothing, scrub cell floors and walls, or toil in its brush factory. Most inmates, too poor to pay requisite fines, came through the city’s police courts on charges of vagrancy, drunkenness, disturbing the peace, or violating some other ordinance. The penal system criminalized everything from poverty and unemployment to homelessness and the mere fact of being Black. Workhouses proved overcrowded and inhospitable facilities that housed hardcore felons and young street toughs along with prostitutes, petty thieves, peace disturbers, political dissenters, “levee rats,” adulterers, and those who suffered from alcohol and drug addiction. Officials even funneled the elderly, the mentally disabled, and the physically infirm into the workhouse system. The torture of prisoners in the hellish chambers of the St. Louis Workhouse proved far worse than Charles Dickens’s portrayals of cruelty in the debtors’ prisons of Victorian England. The ordinance that created the St. Louis complex in 1843 banned corporal punishment, but shackles, chains, and the whipping post remained central to the institution’s attempts to impose discipline. Officers also banished more recalcitrant inmates to solitary confinement in the “bull pen,” where they subsisted on little more than bread and water. Andrews traces efforts by critics to reform the workhouse, a political plum in the game of petty ward patronage played by corrupt and capricious judges, jailers, and guards. The best opportunity for lasting change came during the Progressive Era, but the limited contours of progressivism in St. Louis thwarted reformers’ efforts. The defeat of a municipal bond issue in 1920 effectively ended plans to replace the urban industrial workhouse model with a more humane municipal farm system championed by Progressives.
Thyra J Edwards
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Author : Gregg Andrews
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2011-06-14
Thyra J Edwards written by Gregg Andrews and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "The Spirit of Aframerican Womanhood"--1. Texas Roots of Rebellion under the Chinaberry Tree -- 2. Social Work and Racial Uplift in Gary, Indiana -- 3. Getting a Labor Education in Illinois, New York, and Denmark -- 4. Chain Smoking and Thinking "Black" from Red Square to Nazi Germany -- 5. Building a Popular Front in Chicago -- 6. Conducting Educational Travel Seminars to Europe -- 7. With Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War -- 8. With Health Problems and Spanish Loyalist Refugees in Mexico -- 9. The Double V Years and Marriage in New York City -- 10. The Final Years in Italy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index