Children of the Levee / Edited by O.W. Frost. Introd. by John Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social life and customs.

African Americans.

African Americans--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Lexington, Kentucky] : The University of Kentucky Press, 1957.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cincinnati in the 1870's was the largest inland city in the nation. Much of its prosperity and growth it owed to the commerce which floated along its Ohio River boundary on the way between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. This traffic also sustained a unique African American culture -- saloonkeepers, boardinghouse operators, entertainers, and women who served the steamboat hands between trips.Into this great western metropolis came young Lafcadio Hearn, who after several tentative starts became a newspaper reporter first for the Enquirer and then for the Commercial. Drawn to the Ohio River by his

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; A Child of the Levee; Dolly; Banjo Jim's Story; Pariah People; Jot; Ole Man Pickett; Levee Life; Black Varieties; ""Butler's""; Auntie Porter; The Rising of the Waters; Genius Loci

Notes:

A reprint of the author's 12 newspaper sketches of Negro life on the Ohio River levee.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813194608

0813194601

9780813163055

0813163056

OCLC:

900344989