Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
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Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
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Unnamed Negro Steamboat Hands
Race:
Black
Gender:
Male
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Transportation
Specific Job:
Steamboat Hand
First Mentioned:
Biography:
This is one of the two groups of men from whom Charles E. C-V. Bon - a "white-colored man" (167) with a "coal black" wife (166) - deliberately provokes a racial reaction: "the negro stevedores and deckhands on steamboats or in city honky-tonks who thought he was a white man" (167).
Individual or Group:
Group
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